Drawn from life and inscribed Limmerslease, Surrey, April 28th 1902". Limmerlease was the Watts family home which Brian and his mother visited in 1899. Mrs. Watts wrote to Brian's mother: "Your visit was a great pleasure to us. We so greatly sympathise with you in all your hopes and desires for your dear little son, whom nature has so remarkably endowed!...it is a great joy to find him so unspoilt, just the natural unselfconscious boy! Great men differ very widely but ... they are all of them of childlike simplicity".