… Image Joseph Constantine Stadler, 'Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. Image Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, … drawing below. Image Legend Joseph Constantine Stadler, 'Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. The novelist relied on the immediate comments or later correspondence ( many letters …