GEO. H. BOUGHTON. GROVE LODGE, PALACE GARDENS TERRACE, KENSINGTON, _December 14, 1874_. DEAR MR. LEIGHTON,--I don't know which to admire most--the "sketch," as _you_ call it (it seems "heroic" in size even now), or your great kindness in sending it to me. Now that I may enjoy it at my leisure--and I take my leisure very often--it seems finer even than I thought it was. Not merely the _spirit_ of the antique, but the antique _itself_, and the "antique" I mean is the everlasting, the best mortal may ever hope to make. This is, as far as my capacity for judging is worth, _sincere_. I know how perilous it is to say warmly what one feels, how it is put down as "gush" and "bad form"; but when in this very London fog of Art one sees a spark of pure light, there is some excuse for shouting with joy. I should reproach myself with taking up overmuch of your time in this matter, but I know that you are very good-natured; besides you might have taken my poor little bronze tribute in as few words as I sent it, and there it might have ended--though for myself I am glad you did not, and shall be ever selfishly thankful that you acted as kindly as you did. Pray don't bother to reply to this, I am too much your debtor already.--Yours very sincerely, GEO. H. BOUGHTON. 78 CORNWALL GARDENS, QUEEN'S GATE, _May 11, 1877_. DEAR LEIGHTON,--I follow my instinct and sincere desire in congratulating you on your magnificent statue in the Academy, which I have just seen. It is superb. I think it the best statue of modern days. I was riveted with admiration and astonishment; and whatever you may think of my judgment, pray take this as my humble and heartfelt tribute to a work of genius, which to my mind ranks nearer "zur Antiken" than anything I have seen, during my career, produced in any school or country. Believe me, with sincere admiration, yours, J.E. BOEHM. In 1890 Leighton made a replica of the statue in marble for the Glyptothek in Copenhagen. It was exhibited in the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1891.