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As a frequent visitor, from my youth upwards, 

 to the Tegetmeiers' house at Finchley, which 

 was within a couple of miles of my father's place 

 at Friern Barnet, I was of course familiar with 

 the appearance of the chief rooms, and though 

 familiarity in my case by no means bred con- 

 tempt, I think it better to give a friend's im- 

 pression of them rather than my own. I therefore 

 quote the following passage from the same inter- 

 view by Horace Lennard, describing Tegetmeier 

 " At Home," in 1883. " Without any pretensions 

 to conventional sestheticism, his rooms present 

 a picture of combined comfort and art. The 

 panels of several doors have been decorated by 

 one of his daughters. On the walls, papered 

 with some of his friend Cutler's pretty designs, 

 hang the tokens of his judgment and taste. 

 Over the mantel is Vandyke's c Margaret Lemon,' 

 surrounded by various specimens of antique 

 pottery. On the opposite wall is a splendid copy 

 of Paul Delaroche's ' L'Hemicycle,' from the 

 Palais des Beaux- Arts. Here is Rajon's ' Hugo,' 

 here a portrait of Mrs. Seymour Haden by 

 Whistler. The portrait of the late T. W. 

 Robertson, etched by Macbeth, the new Associate, 

 hangs beside the door ; near it is a head of Mr. 

 Tegetmeier himself, etched by Herkomer ;* also 

 the portrait of his daughter by Herbert Johnson. 

 Seymour Haden is numerously represented. 



* Reproduced as Frontispiece. 



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