Reference code
GI/1/82
Title
C. R. Cockerell, Hampstead, London, to his "Dear Colleague" [John Gibson]
Date
14 Dec 1856
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
The letter serves as an introduction to Mr Ainger, a young man travelling for his health, who intended to take holy orders. Cockerell says that the Royal Academy felt Gibson's absence in every way; however, the President [
Sir Charles Eastlake] was excellent and held them together admirably. Cockerell hoped that Gibson was preparing a model for the monument to the
Duke of Wellington in St Paul's.