Note 7 — Chapter III · THE ARTIST’S EARLY WORK

The model was a Mrs. Stewart, who, with her husband, sat to Mrs. Allingham for years. They were well known in art circles, and had charge of the Hogarth Club, Fitzroy Square, when Mrs. Allingham, before her marriage, lived in Southampton Row close by. She introduced the models to Mr. du Maurier, who immediately engaged them, and continued to use them for many years. “Ponsonby de Tompkins” was Stewart, run to seed, and “Mrs. Ponsonby de Tompkins” a very good portrait of Mrs. Stewart.