English: Charles Sims, A Fairy Wooing, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1898 (no. 209)[1]; oil on canvas, 36 x 54 inches. Alan Sims, the painter's son, wrote that his father "crossed the borders of fairyland for the first time with 'A Fairy Wooing', and achieved lightness at a bound. Nothing so rich and delicate in fancy had ever shone out from the walls of the Academy before. The chill academic nymphs stared down their marmoreal noses in astonishment." (Charles Sims, Picture Makingː Technique & Inspiration, 1934, p. 102.) Reproduced in color with a brief essay, p. 47, Great Pictures in Private Galleries, Londonː Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1905 (with the acknowledgment, "in the Collection of Fairfax Rhodes, Esq.").
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