CALDERON, PHILIP HERMOGENES, RA (1833-1898)A letter to 'Waller'

CALDERON, PHILIP HERMOGENES, RA (1833-1898)A letter to 'Waller' (Samuel Edmund Waller) referring to an item in the Daily News and 'what a capital notion it would be for a picture'…….and a variety of dogs and puppies of all nations surrounding the maid would make a telling and amusing picture - what think you?' together with a sketch, the ink drawing annotated with 'Dogs' Dogs'. Another letter in which he refers to having a bad cold - 'I can scarcely get on what with one hand holding my pallet and the other hand blowing my nose all day'.Philip Hermogenes Calderon was a Pre-Raphaelite and historical genre painter and became keeper of the Royal Academy in 1887. His brother in law was Henry Stacy Marks and he was a close friend of Frederic Leighton