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Siccar on brae and bentie knowe The bowmen they maun stand or fa’ Amang the lave young Craigenden, They’ve bound him fast—the wale of a’. Sae dreich and sair and tenderly Fair Marley loots upon her knee Wi’ boding heart sae tremblingly She seeks her love where he may be.
ОглавлениеAfter the opening day Mr Tytler, of Woodhouselee, came along to the studio (he was a collector of old Scottish literature, especially the old ballads). “Where did you get that ballad? I can’t place it. I have never seen it.” “Oh,” said your Father, “I just made the two verses myself to suit the picture.” “Well,” said Mr Tytler, “they suit the picture, and are a very exact imitation.”
I wonder how long Orchardson was studying in London. Mrs Ford thinks about two years. But “Wishart’s Last Exhortation” was painted in Edinburgh at 4 Torphichen Street in 1853; and “The Cottage Door” and portrait of “Master Henry Keith” in 1854, at 26 Royal Crescent, where he remained for three years according to the R.S.A. catalogue. “Bill’s” two letters to “Chattie,” dated “London 1854,” and the following invoice:
Mr Orchardson
Bot. of George Rowney & Company,
Artists’ Colourmen,
51 Rathbone Place,
Bloomsbury.
September 12th, 1854.
1 Mahogany Rack Easel — — — — — £1 15 0
Recd. F. Foster
together with a very youthful poem dated Sunday, October 14th, 1854, 26 Royal Crescent, make me suppose that he was in London for only a few months. I never heard him mention this time in London, but the poem suggests that he enjoyed English Sundays better than Scottish Sabbaths, and that the contrast made the “Bright day of dull repose” very noticeable.
26 Royal Crescent,
Sunday, October 14th, 1854.
