Note 15 — Chapter I · ToC
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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.