W.B. Richmond, 123 via Felice, Rome, to George Richmond

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RI/1/27

Title

W.B. Richmond, 123 via Felice, Rome, to George Richmond

Date

4 Mar 1866

Level

Item

Extent & medium

2 pieces

Content Description

He has been working in the Vatican. Describes his continuing response to Raphael and Michelangelo, he does not like the Last Judgement. He "hates" the Italians, who are idle and unhelpful to him. The Pantheon was very impressive, he did not like St. Peters, "the horrid mosaic pictures dwarf the size of the buidling". He and Moore walked old Rome in the moonlight. He has been working hard on his fresco design, A Bacchus, and given up attending the Academy in the evening. In the evenings he often gets very low, misses [Charlotte] and seeks the company of Moore and his wife.

I has seen the "most glorious" Titian painting pf Sacred and Profane Love, but is so eaten up with fresco work that he hasn't been back to see it. Fails to prevent himself pronouncing against Catholicism. He went to the Doria Gallery, but Mr. Severn said no-one is ever allowed to draw the portrait of Andrea Doria.

Physical Characteristics

Held together by nasty sticky tape.