"Then stay in London." for him it was that simple, why stay in a place you did not wish to be? "Just sneak to London one day and stay gone, if it is what you want and it makes you happy, then you should do it." but then he had the advantage of being a man in a male dominated society, he could move about within it and do as he liked with no disapproval from anyone, where if he were a woman and did the same things he would be looked down upon and called terrible names.
He chuckled a little, "From time to time, though I cannot say I paint one type of woman more than any other. For example my most recent painting was of the wife of a Turkish Merchant, before her was one of my new maids and before her was the youngest daughter of a Welsh Baron."