Reference code
GI/1/34
Title
W. Boxall, 14 Welbeck Street, London, to [John] Gibson
Date
06 Sep [c. 1865]
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Historical Background
Spence died of consumption in Italy in 1866.
Content Description
Boxall refers in the letter to
Harriet Hosmer;
[Benjamin] Spence, who looked better than he expected;
Solomon [Gibson], who contemplated paying his brother a visit in Rome; and
the Eastlakes. He also describes his own health, and professional aspirations, saying that "thirty years of portrait painting had done for [him]".