Letters from artists in the nineteenth century

Contents

1. Educating the Artist -- Cornelius in Rome -- Canova visits London -- Feuerbach reassures his mother -- The Flandrin brothers change their minds -- The Rome Prize -- At the Academie Julian -- Herkomer and his school -- Bilders as a student -- An Oxford undergraduate -- Ruskin gives judgement -- Vernet praises a new method -- Du Maurier feels bourgeois -- Pissarro helps his son -- The American Impressionist -- 2. The Practice of Art -- Rethel's stages in picture-making -- Constable considers the sky -- Sisley is averse to theory -- Seurat corrects his printers -- Van Gogh discusses colour with a colleague -- Repin appreciates sympathy from Tolstoy -- Zorn argues for quality -- Schadow is kept busy in Berlin -- Hosmer writes her thanks -- Watts and his colourman -- Gauguin pleads poverty -- Costa advises a novice -- 3. Personal Lives -- Bonheur's birds and animals -- From an artistic colony -- A quiet solitude -- Fuseli begs a friend to stay -- Bewick makes amends -- Constable well-employed in town -- Turner retails the Roman gossip -- A dark and blighting cloud -- Keene gains an understanding -- Du Maurier recalls old times -- The original Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Menzel gives a reprimand -- Haydon and the deaf girl -- Toulouse-Lautrec writes to his grandmother -- 4. Art and Exhibitions -- Farington speaks from experience -- Gericault scorns the critics -- Constable fears he is misunderstood -- Thompson scores a success -- Millais is apprehensive -- Renoir's exhibition policy -- The Council dines -- Lawrence tries to help Turner -- Haydon sells a picture to the King -- Millet explains three pictures -- Pissarro on Whistler and picture hanging -- An Impressionist fiasco -- 5. Portraits -- A surprise party -- Holl helps saw down a walnut tree -- An amiable squabble -- A tableau by Whistler -- Lawrence and Princess Charlotte -- The Tzar Alexander -- An equestrian speculation -- 6. Projects Great and Small -- Trumbull argues his case -- Haydon tries his powers of persuasion -- Delacroix seeks adequate payment -- Courbet in Munich -- Rodin is defensive -- Wilkie receives the Iron Duke -- Whistler and a patron -- Dahl refuses an appointment -- Hazlitt and the bootmaker -- Morse has a dream -- Caldecott and an author -- 7. The Travellers -- Delacroix tries out his English -- Eastlake in Italy -- Bonheur buys models -- Manet visits Madrid -- A realist assesses the competition -- Gavarni dreams in London -- An American on Merseyside -- Adams-Acton and the Pope -- Sturge Moore goes cycling -- Lear in Corfu -- Delacroix in Morocco -- Roberts reaches Egypt -- Catlin records noble races -- Remington rides with the army -- 8. Afterword -- Delacroix is no longer carefree -- Lear follows a strict regime -- Courbet appeals for help -- Bartolozzi pines in Lisbon -- Goya in Bordeaux -- David refuses to return to Paris -- A letter of consolation -- Mourning for Manet -- Van Gogh writes from an asylum -- Leighton appeals to an old friend -- The Millais-nium.