The _Baa Lamb_ picture was painted almost entirely in sunlight, which twice gave me a fever while painting. I used to take the lay figure out every morning, and bring it in at night or if it rained.... My painting-room being on a level with the garden, Emma sat for the lady, and Kate for the child. The lambs and sheep used to be brought every morning from Clapham Common in a truck: one of them ate up all the flowers one morning in the garden, where they used to behave very ill. The background was painted on the Common. The medium I used was Roberson’s undrying copal (flake white). After getting rid of these works I went to Foot’s Cray for Michaelmas with my daughter Lucy, where I painted my picture of _Paul’s Cray Church_ in ten days. This I have sent to Robinson’s Auction a few months since, and it fetched £2. 8s. inclusive of frame. It was exhibited at Grundy’s and Liverpool in 1852. After these works I began my picture of _Christ washing Peter’s Feet_, painting this one at my painting-rooms in Newman Street: at the same time I began the study for the small picture of _Waiting_,[73] working at it in the three evenings a week I used to sleep in Stockwell--the other three being passed at the studio to save time. Twelve days before sending in the _Christ_ picture I had given it up in despair, none of the heads being yet done: so I returned to Stockwell to alter the head in the _Baa Lambs_ picture, being dissatisfied with it. I afterwards took up the _Christ_ again at the instigation of Millais, and painted the heads of Peter, Christ, and John (this one the only one laid-in), also all the other figures of apostles, in ten days, and sent it in. This picture was painted in four months, the flesh painted on _wet white_ at Millais’s lying instigation; Roberson’s medium, which I think dangerous like Millais’s advice. Having got rid of these pictures (which were hung, one above the line so as to shine all over, the other against the window in the octagon room), I immediately began the picture of _Waiting_; from Miss Ryan[74] the head, the remainder copied from the study painted at night. I all but finished this little picture before leaving our house at Stockwell: ten weeks’ work at least.... [Illustration: (Chris Washing Peter’s Feet, sketch by Madox Brown)]