PEACOCK, Ralph (1868-1946). Painter.
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Holman Hunt, 2 pages 8vo (slight tear in the fold), 32 Holland Park Road, 21 August 1928. Suggesting that another sitting is not required ('I might go further with it and fare worse'), and suggesting that 'the Cambridge Professor' might be called upon to give a neutral opinion.

'... I think I shall do more of these sketches in the future. I get a fresh satisfaction from them that I never get from the more exhausting work I do.'

The painter William Holman Hunt's marriage in 1875 to (Marion) Edith (d. 1931), his deceased wife's sister, had caused something of a scandal at the time, since such a union was proscribed under English law.

£65 [No: 24475]