 Despite the grandeur of Florence , Etty was severely depressed , writing to his brother on 5 October that " I feel so lonely , it is impossible for me to be happy " and complaining of " the vermin in the bed , the dirt and the filth " which he considered " such as no Englishman can have any idea of , who has not witnessed it " . His emotional state made it impossible for him to study , and within a month of his arrival in Italy , he began the journey back to England , stopping in Paris on 26 October 1816 . In Paris he enrolled in the atelier of Jean @-@ Baptiste Regnault but found the atmosphere too rowdy and the studio too full of Frenchmen , and he left after a week . While in Paris he also attended the Académie des Beaux @-@ Arts , and amassed a large quantity of prints from the art shops of Paris . Still homesick , Etty left Paris , returning to London in November . 
