Re: Please explain this phrase

At 21:43:16 on Sun, 13 Nov 2005, pninja005 <pninja005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <kFNdf.24438$Jl2.22394@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more
fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."

It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who was more interested in some (unnamed) subject for his painting than in the fashionable ladies who commissioned their portraits from him. ("Sitting" would be "sitting for a portrait".)
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