29/44 I don't know how many errors I might have fallen into if it had not been for his attentions.... Our sitters are among our acquaintances. We paint them if they defray the expense of canvas and colors...." "Mama wished me to send some specimens of my painting home that you might see my improvement. The pictures that I now paint would be uninteresting to you; they consist merely of studies and drawings from plaster figures, hands and feet and such things. The portraits are taken by those for whom they are painted. |