OULESS
(Walter William, 1848-1933, Portrait Painter, RA. 1881)
Fascinating series of 27 Autograph Letters Signed to Frank F. Mewburn,
(born 1820 or 1821, Solicitor & Collector, of Larchfield, Darlington), and 1 autograph envelope, with many insights into the values of a fine young artist, his growing portrait practice, (including Charles Darwin's, 1875), good and bad hanging at the R.A., many comments on older painters including Holman Hunt and what his own contemporaries are doing, leisure snatched in a busy life, and the effect of London fog, with much gratitude for Mewburn's continuous support and introductions to his friends in the North, often in racy language, "I am sorry the portraits seem to them cross looking but all my portraits are more or less so. I cannot do the smile fearing a smirk ... I am furious at their hanging my Chemist above the line and that odious Mayor of Newcastle on the line ... I was delighted to receive your kind congratulations" (on being elected A.R.A.), with a Checklist of extracts, 146 sides 8vo, the envelope from Utrecht, 1st October 1880, the letters nearly all from 43 Bloomsbury Square, London, 1872-1875, 1877 &
first 4 sides only present of 2 letters, some cross-writing (easily read), some a trifle dusty but generally in good condition
Item Date:
1884
Stock No:
54691
£775
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OWEN
(Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe, 1828-1894, Director of the South Kensington Museum 1873-1893)
Signature, n.d., c.
laid down
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
13957
£15
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PAPILLON
(Jean Michel, 1698-1776, Engraver at the Imprimerie Royale in Paris)
Fine and elaborate woodcut,
after his own design, showing Apollo in a swirl of cloud surrounded by emblems of the arts and sciences, 4" x 5" (10.2cm x 12.9cm) plus margins,
Item Date:
1747
Stock No:
50829
£25
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PARK
(Bertram Charles Percival, 1883-1972, Portrait Photographer
Portrait Photograph signed in pencil on the mount, of an unnamed sitter
showing the sitter head and shoulders in profile, wearing a coat with a fur lined collar and pearls, 12" x 10" in mount 18" x 13½", with photographer's label on verso, 45 Dover Street, Piccadilly, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41657
£75
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PARK
(Bertram Charles Percival, 1883-1972, Portrait Photographer
Portrait Photograph signed in pencil on the mount, of an unnamed sitter
showing the sitter head and shoulders looking straight at the camera, wearing a lace veil and pearls, 13½" x 10½" in mount 18" x 13½", with photographer's label on verso, 45 Dover Street, Piccadilly, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41658
£75
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