'Horned Moses' and the 'Slave'; who designed Peter's great Basilica, and the Ghiberti Gates at Florence."--_Daily Telegraph_, 3rd May 1858. [9] The Prince of Wales, who lent the picture to the exhibition of Leighton's works at Burlington House, 1897. [10] Mr. Augustus Craven's wife, _née_ Pauline la Ferronnay, was the authoress of the famous book, _Le Récit d'une soeur_, in which several of the most charming scenes took place at Naples. [11] Mr. George Aitchison wrote: "In 1859, while at Capri, he drew the celebrated Lemon Tree, working from daylight to dusk for a week or two, and giving large details in the margin of the snails on the tree." [12] The drawing had been lent to Ruskin at the time he was lecturing at Oxford. [13] Leighton knew Mr. Chorley through Mrs. Sartoris. He accompanied the great _cantatrice_ when she made a tour abroad. "Mrs. Kemble's children and their nurse are with them, and Mary Anne Thackeray, a life-long friend, and Mr. Chorley, and the great Liszt, who subsequently joined them in Germany."--Preface by Mrs. R. Ritchie to "A Week in a French Country House," by Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris. [14] Leighton was perfectly right. "Orphée" was produced at Covent Garden, and the great artist, Madame Viardot, sang in it superbly. The opera was given after one or two acts of a well-known work, and I can vouch for the fact, having been one of the audience, that the house was very nearly empty at the close of "Orphée," Lord Dudley and a very few true lovers of music only remaining in the stalls to the end. [15] The lady was Mrs. Sandbach, a _Hollandaise_, who was Maid of Honour to the Queen of Holland. In after years, on an occasion when she and I paid a visit together to Leighton's studio in Holland Park Road, she recounted the incident above related by Leighton, which happened in the palace at the Hague when she was in waiting. She also added that from her description Leighton painted what she had seen in her dream to perfection; but that he subsequently added two _amorini_, which in her opinion did much to mar the otherwise true feeling of the picture. [16] See sketches in the Leighton House Collection. The picture itself is, I believe, in America. [17] _Ibid._ [18] A visitor to Leighton's "private view" wrote him the following suggestions:-- 13 CHESTER TERRACE, N.W., _Easter Monday_. DEAR MR. LEIGHTON,--Pardon intrusion. I thought much of your beautiful pictures after my yesterday's visit, and I anticipated a struggle with the difficulty you mentioned of worthily naming them. Don't think me impertinent for volunteering the result. It seemed impossible without verbal description to explain the sacred subject to the profane imagination, while a prose translation of its sentiment must be heavy and subversive of romance.