Autograph Collection.- Artists

Autograph Collection.- Artists

A group of letters and notes signed by prominent British artists, including: William Orpen (brief note); Lawrence Alma Tadema (clipped signature and autograph letter to Mr Trower, apologising for not having been able to attend a dinner, 3 February 1889); John William Waterhouse (letter to Sir James Lenton from Venice, thanking him "for your good wishes and kind congratulations" and adding "We have been enjoying ourselves very much hear but it is getting rather too hot now so we shall be soon back again in England", 11 June [1883?]); George Frederick Watts (clipped signature and letter to Miss Bell, saying "I am sorry to be obliged to put you off but I shall not be able to paint for some days, so the doctor tells me. As soon as I am able to paint again I will write and ask you to name your own time for sitting", 27 May 1873); William Strang (letter to Mr Rutter, saying in part "The pictures I believe have been returned safely, I am glad I was able to send them", 26 June 1914); Augustus John (brief note accepting an invitation to the re-opening to the Pitt Rivers Museum, 12 June 1948); Henry Stacy Marks (ink sketch of a falcon, with quotation from a poem by Barry Cornwall, signed by the artist, April 1892); George du Maurier (two brief notes); Muirhead Bone (letter to Mr Rutter, saying "I shall try my best to get up for you a group of drawings and etchings as you suggest. Most of my work is bought outright by Colnaghi & Obach, that is the difficulty", n.d.); Henry Tonks (letter to Mr Rutter, saying "I think it is only fair to write and tell you how good I thought your article on Roger Fry in yesterday's Sunday Times was...As I was to a certain extent in contact with him on the jury of the new England Art Club many years ago, I can support you in what you said about his early relation to French Art. We had to defend it as Fry did not believe in it. In fact in practice he seemed to admire early English watercolours, and very late (17th century) Italian landscapes", 12 September 1934); George Frampton (note regarding a donation, 10 August 1919); Alfred Munnings (letter to Kathleen Potter, saying in part "I'm glad you liked the books. I can’t write any more or…I'll have to take the place next door", 29 June 1953); Edward Landseer (later to Mr Minton, saying in part "I send back your drawings, you will find one scribbled over suggesting some alterations and improvements. The Highlander must look up, we think, and the dog also. The charcoal marks are very slightly done but sufficiently marked for your artists to follow and understand", 17 February 1854; and a note signed with his initials); Alfred Gilbert (note to Mr Lenton, expressing his sympathy and saying "keep up your courage, all your friends - and they are legions- are standing by and wishing you well out of it all", 6 April 1898); John Piper 9signed postcard); James Dromgole Linton (clipped signature); Joseph Noel Paton (signed mourning stationery with black wax seal); Charles Barry (letter thanking the recipient for his offer "to send a man to lay the tile paving here" but declining it "as the job is so trifling and we have here an expert in such matters", 12 January 1850); Briton Riviere (ink signature on paper); Thomas Brock (mentioning a letter "respecting the application you have received from a Belgian Publishing House for an electrotype of the block used in Cassell's Magazine from my sketch model of the Queen Victoria Memorial" and adding "you do not say which block it is desired to use. If it is the one in which the whole design is seen I have no objection to your supplying one electrotype, but I must have a proof impression submitted to me before you dispatch the electrotype", 7 October 1905); William Powell Frith (brief note to Frederick Roe cancelling an appointment, 15 November 1900); Tom Webster (ink caricature on postcard); Henry Wallis (letter discussing the copyright of his pictures, 7 May 1858); Edward John Gregory (letter saying in part "I did not suspect that our friend was so keen about this...there will be only some 85 watercolours in all so that many most excellent artists are left out", n.d.); Charles Robert Ashbee (printed letter announcing he has taken into partnership Mr George H. Chettle, May 1914); George Clausen (letter to James Lenton, regarding an enquiry from Mrs Holman-Hunt he is unable to help with, 3 April 1887); Edward J. Poynter (two letters, one sending a donation, the other to Canon Sheppard, saying in part "If we have the full choir, the eight men might come in to sing the Grace...I hope they will come in their handsome dresses", 25 April 1910); Frederick Leighton (two letters, one to the Archbishop of York regarding "your kind intention of listening to my next Presidential Address" and explaining these occurrences "are biennial and coincide with the distribution of gold medals"; the other letter, to Mr Baxington, discusses some changes to previous arrangements, n.d.); and a few others, v.s. late 19th century-20th century (quantity)

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Dimensions: in an envelope measuring 30 x 22cm approx