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Now you may want my general impression about the picture and its value though perhaps this is not so important. Well it is not so fine as your Ilchester portrait – it has not the great elevation of mood of that – it is more realistic more immediately like life. Oit is not so fine as the Youssoupoff portraits in execution. But it comes about next to there in its extraordinary vividness and intensity and it certainly is a picture that more people will understand. It has I mean a certain note of popularity It is at once very realistic and very romantic. I don't for a moment think