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TO THE EDITOR:
Pall Mall Gazette, July 28, 1891.
Sir,—May I request that you allow me to make known, through your influential paper, the fact that the canvas, now shown as a completed work of mine, at Messrs. Dowdeswell’s, representing three draped figures in a conservatory, is a painting long ago barely begun, and thrown aside for destruction?
Also I am in no way responsible for the taste of the frame with its astonishments of plush! and varied gildings.
I think it not only just to myself to make this statement, but right that the public should be warned against the possible purchase of a picture in no way representative, and, in its actual condition, absolutely worthless.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Chelsea, July 27, 1891.