 At around this time Etty began to receive many unsolicited letters from wealthy Old Etonian lawyer Thomas Myers . Myers was a huge admirer of Etty , and his letters mainly suggest literary topics he felt Etty ought to be painting so as to appeal to the nobility ; he wrote regularly between July 1832 and May 1844 . Although eccentric and largely incoherent ( one of his suggestions was for Etty to raise his profile by painting nude portraits of the wives of the aristocracy ) , Etty appears to have taken at least some of Myers 's suggestions seriously . 
