ABSTRACT
During his time in Paris, May had kept a weather eye on what was going on in London, his natural artistic milieu. In a letter to his Australian patron, Theodore Fink, written from Paris in late 1890, he recounts his progress:
I have also settled with another newspaper ‘Black & White5 which is coming out at the end of the year and is to eclipse everything of the kind ever known. Sir Frederick Leighton, Alma Tadema, Hubert Von and all the great ones are going to work for it. I have got old Longstaffe something to do on it also Conder. I hope they will do some good work because if they do it will be the making of them.
