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Updated: June 26, 2025


I left them in the Salle d'Attente told them I had a sitter time immensely occupied half-lengths furiously in demand ... Will you oblige me by performing the part for a few minutes, just to carry out the idea?" "What part?" "The part of sitter." "Oh, with pleasure," I replied, laughing. "Do with me what you please," "You don't mind? Come! you are the best fellow in the world.

Next he rented a suite of rooms, crowded in a lot of borrowed tapestries, brass, Venetian chests, lamps and hangings; gave a tea servants this time in livery exhibited his Sappho; refused a big price for it from the husband; got orders instead for two half-lengths, $1,500 each, finished them in two weeks, declined more commissions on account of extreme fatigue; disappeared with the first frost and the best cottage people; booked three more full-lengths in New York two to be painted in Paris and the other on his return in the spring; was followed to the steamer by a bevy of beauties, half-smothered in flowers, and disappeared in a halo of artistic glory just $4,000 in."

In the dining-room, a fine, large apartment, we come again upon the old walls, six feet thick, which gives very deep window recesses. In this room hang the portraits of Annie Laurie and her husband, Alexander Ferguson. They are half-lengths, life-size. Annie's hair is dark brown, and she has full dark eyes it is difficult to say whether brown or deep hazel. I incline to the latter.

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