The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . PHRYNE AT ELEUSIS/ 1882. WATTS—SUCCESS—FAILURE 231 courageous ; the other almost morbidly self-depreciative, sensi-tive, and timid. All the same, no two workmen could havehad more sympathy with one another in their true aimsand aspirations, or more mutual admiration for each othersartistic gifts. Watts, to his credit, had from his first acquaintance withLeighton discerned that the unusual position which Leightonundoubtedly held from his first appearance in the Londonworld to the day of his death, was due to the possession ofunusual gifts, exerc
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . PHRYNE AT ELEUSIS/ 1882. WATTS—SUCCESS—FAILURE 231 courageous ; the other almost morbidly self-depreciative, sensi-tive, and timid. All the same, no two workmen could havehad more sympathy with one another in their true aimsand aspirations, or more mutual admiration for each othersartistic gifts. Watts, to his credit, had from his first acquaintance withLeighton discerned that the unusual position which Leightonundoubtedly held from his first appearance in the Londonworld to the day of his death, was due to the possession ofunusual gifts, exercised in a very unusually generous andpublic-spirited manner, and not to reasons invented by thosewho were envious of this prominent position. Watts wrote to Leighton after they became neighboursin Kensington :— I have been worrying myself by fancying you rather mis-understood the drift of my observations respecting the value ofsocial consideration to a professional man, that I meant to implyyou sold your pictures in consequence of the unusual positionyou undoubted
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