DGR wrote to Barbara Bodichon (14 April 1870) that he had just “finished the drawing of Sophy Burgess and I think made a pretty good thing of it”. He was staying at her estate in Scalands at the time. He earlier wrote of Miss Burgess as “a British beauty. . .in the shape of a gamekeeper's daughter” whom he wanted to make a chalk drawing of, if Barbara Bodichon could persuade the girl to sit for him. DGR sold the drawing for fifty guineas to William Graham right after he had completed it (see
Fredeman, Correspondence, 70. 53, 101, 118
).
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DGR wrote to Barbara Bodichon (14 April 1870) that he had just “finished the drawing of Sophy Burgess and I think made a pretty good thing of it”. He was staying at her estate in Scalands at the time. He earlier wrote of Miss Burgess as “a British beauty. . .in the shape of a gamekeeper's daughter” whom he wanted to make a chalk drawing of, if Barbara Bodichon could persuade the girl to sit for him. DGR sold the drawing for fifty guineas to William Graham right after he had completed it (see Fredeman, Correspondence, 70. 53, 101, 118 ).