[Sir Frank Dicksee, Victorian artist, President of the Royal Academy.] Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Orchardson, regarding a meeting by the committee for the Royal Academy summer exhibition, with reference to Onslow Ford.

See the entries for Dicksee and Lady Orchardson’s husband Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910), RA, in the Oxford DNB. Lady Orchardson (1853-1917) was the daughter of the London publisher Charles Moxon. The Orchardsons married in 1873. Among their four children was the painter Charles Moxon Quiller Orchardson (1873-1917), who studied in the Royal Academy Schools and was killed in action during World War One. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Signed ‘Frank Dicksee’. Begins: ‘Dear Lady Orchardson - / I am so very sorry that I missed seeing you when you called on Sunday. I should have written sooner - but thought I would wait until after the Committee meeting [for the Royal Academy summer exhibtion] this afternoon’. He felt that committee would ‘all desire to see the bust by Onslow Ford included in the Exhibition - & that I need hardly say is the case’. Nearly all the pictures have been ‘sent in’, and they will have ‘a very fine show but we shall miss some we should dearly like to have’. The ODNB also has an entry for the sculptor Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901), who participated in several Royal Academy summer exhibitions.