| Description | He commences with a visit to see the pictures of Mr [Samuel] Mendel, a 'Manchester Plutocrat'. He describes the house [Manley Hall], Mrs Mendel 'quite a lady and a queenly one too', and Mendel 'a very agreeable spoken man of about 55'. William gives an account of the paintings, including [Henry Nelson] O'Neile's death of Raphael, a small original of the death of Chatterton, a [Joseph Mallard William] Turner of Venice, [William] Holman Hunt's 'The finding of the Saviour', which William does not admire, and many others. Mendel's collection is the best that William has seen, taken as a whole and the lighting was perfect for all. He is glad that Julia has seen the pantomime and he sends remembrances to Lady Lubbock and to others. |