Thomas Chapman's sixpenny diary

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

GRI/2/37

Title

Thomas Chapman's sixpenny diary

Date

1886

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 volume

Content Description

In January he undertakes sketches for the Grillions Club; in July he notes a curious meeting with Gladstone where he tried and failed to avoid the statesman and then he severely criticises Gladstone's policies, going so far as to accuse him of "treason"; in September is pasted a newspaper cutting on Prussian honours bestowed on British artists, amongst them W.B. Richmond; in October he notes giving a self-portrait from 1866 to the Painter Stainers' Company and a drawing of Tivoli, by Palmer, to Dr. Acland; a letter from W.B. Richmond to the Times of a proposed national exhibition of the arts is placed in November, also in November he gets paid for the Pusey bust; at the rear is a list of Autumn holidays from 1855 to 1877.