Gogin told me that Berg, an impulsive Swede whom he had known in
Laurens’s studio in Paris and who painted very well, came to London and
was taken by an artist friend [Henry Scott Tuke, A.R.A.] to the National
Gallery where he became very enthusiastic about the Terbourgs. They then
went for a walk and, in Kensington Gore, near one of the entrances to
Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens, there was an old Irish apple-woman
sitting with her feet in a basket, smoking a pipe and selling oranges.
“Arranges two a penny, sorr,” said the old woman in a general way.
And Berg, turning to her and throwing out his hands appealingly, said:
“O, madame, avez-vous vu les Terbourgs? Allez voir les Terbourgs.”
He felt that such a big note had been left out of the life of any one who
had not seen them.