HERKOMER
(Sir Hubert von, 1849-1914, Portrait Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear friend"
telling him that his "difficulties with regard to Mr Watts [(George Frederick, 1817-1904, Painter & Sculptor)] are easily overcome - you MUST SIT TO BOTH OF US!!! I can't possibly let you off. It is my privilege to enable the companion to one you so appreciate. It is kind of you to tell people to come to me, but then you are always kind in my case ..." and he mentions a friend whose "eldest was ill ... with Rheumatic fever, but he is now getting better. But it touches up the parents dreadfully to see their children suffer ...", 2 sides 8vo,., Bushey House, 28th April
Item Date:
1894
Stock No:
29042
£100
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HICKS
(George Elgar, 1824-1914, Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to W. H. ALLCHIN
(Sir William Henry, 1846-1912, Physician) saying that he "will be of course speaking to any of the Academicians about the coming exhibition - your best way will be to write at once to the Secretary of the Academy who I suppose will make all the arrangements, saying that you are willing to contribute a valuable painting by Rembrandt and desiring to know when you are to send it in. This is a good opportunity of testing its originality. For the correspondence I shd not admit a doubt of its genuineness ...", 2 sides 8vo., with the address of the secretary on the blank 3rd side, 36 Kensington Park Road, 26th November
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
40592
£75
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HILL
(Amelia Robertson, 1820-1904, Scottish Sculptress influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites)
Signature and Subscription at the end of a letter,
in this fragment wishing "goodnight dear friend & a happy awakening in the New Year. Always yours affectionately", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
55840
£45
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HINE
(Harry, 1845-1941, R.I., Watercolourist)
Signature and Subscription from the end of a letter,
no date, circa
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
55841
£20
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HODSON
(Haro, born 1923, Cartoonist known as "Haro")
Fine Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to Sheridan RUSSELL (1900-1991, Cellist, Doctor and Patron of the Arts)
thanking him for asking "Elizabeth and me to come & listen to music by the river ... sch a lovely idea and I do wish we could be with you. But Elizabeth is having a baby rather soon* ..." with a note that that is "an English understatement" but hoping that they will be asked again, illustrated with a delightful cartoon of a cat singing, accompanied by a dog playing the piano to an audience of cats, dogs, an owl, a pig and a frog, together with original autograph envelope signed, 2 sides 8vo., Orchard Cottage, Stewkley, Bucks, 6th July
Item Date:
1989
Stock No:
16282
£75
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