Autograph Letter Signed ‘E.T.Parris’, to Joseph L.Williams, about Parris’ perspective Sketch of St. Pauls “as soon as my scaffold should be complete”, which might be suitable for publication, offering to meet his correspondent at the Cathedral

5 Aubrey Villas, Notting Hill, 7 April 1853. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, small central filing holes. Edmund Thomas Parris (1793 –1873), English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer. He was appointed history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, and painted Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838 and the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852. He supervised the painting of the huge panorama in the London Colosseum in Regent's Park, London, and was the inventor of "Parris's medium" In 1852, he painted the Duke of Wellington's funeral. Also in that year, the proposal to restore Thornhill's paintings in St. Paul's was revived and the commission given to Parris, who, bringing into use the scaffold he had designed for the purpose nearly thirty years before, commenced the task in 1853, and completed it in July 1856.