WOOLNER
(Thomas, 1825-1892, Pre-Raphaelite Sculptor)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
sending his "thanks for your note. The time, tomorrow at 2 o'clock will suit me very well ...", 1 side 8vo, 29 Welbeck St, 22nd February
Item Date:
1882
Stock No:
41220
£145
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THE FOREIGN PICTURES WERE “SO WRETCHEDLY PAINTED THAT IT SEEM TO ME AS IF THEY MUST HAVE BEEN PAINTED BY A SET OF DEVILS...”
WOOLNER
(Thomas, 1825-1892, Pre-Raphaelite Sculptor)
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to Mr White
saying he is “steadily on the look out for a few minutes to chat with you and have begun this so that I may go on with it as time may offer. My wife hunted out a catalogue of the 2nd year of the Old Masters, which I sent straightway, as I knew that it would amuse you to have many of the beautiful old friends of your youth brought before you again. I have seen Reid and am happy to say that the account he gives of his wife is hopeful, for she is a great deal better and he spoke in a cheerful frame of mind. I cannot give you so good an account of poor Pearce, but I am happy to say that he is a trifle better than he has been; they have had a great Doctor in who says that he may rally for a time but that he never will be well again. It is very sad to think of one so good and kind having no life henceforth but a life of suffering. The ‘Grenoble’ Turner drawing fetched 1400 guineas at Broderipp’s sale, and many other drawings almost the same in proportion to their quality; the fact is that works of art in a well accredited collection go to almost any price now a days. I was shown a drawing by Turner, the ‘Falls of the Clyde’ which was just sold for 1600. I confess it is one of the finest I ever saw. There was one of ‘Cassiobury’ which was sold for £1000. I went yesterday with my wife to look at a large coll; of foreign pictures at Crockford old gambling Rooms in St. James’ street; and they were so horrible in feeling, morbid or mawkish, or evil, and so wretchedly painted that it seems to me as if they must have been painted by a set of devils, or perhaps for the want of power in them, I ought say devilkins. We then went to the Dudley Gallery of the rising young bloods in water colours, and the work there did not look so morbid and wicked as the foreigners but, as if all the drawings came from various young ladies schools and were the show drawings the girls took home on holidays to show their parents... We went for another peep at the Old Masters, and I found that the public complained bitterly of the Exhibition and said there were not enough pictures for their shillings. You as a philosopher of large Art experience know well enough that the day for studying art is past and now the time for ostentatious swallowing is come instead. My wife was grieved to hear of Mrs White’s illness...”, 4 sides 8vo, 29 Welbeck St, 18th February
Item Date:
1872
Stock No:
43568
£275
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“I SHOULD PREFER GIVING UP ART ALTOGETHER; FOR I AM SICK OF FACES, FACES, FACES...”
WOOLNER
(Thomas, 1825-1892, Pre-Raphaelite Sculptor)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed, marked “Private, Read this over your pipe” to “My dear Agnew”
telling him that “the Baron Grant called on me a day or two back and told me that he had bought your bronze group, and I pleased him very much by showing him an old engraving of it done in 1756. I called to show it to you but you were about to wing your way Northwards. The Baron called to give me a commission for a bust for a public place - How tired I am growing of busts it is impossible for me to describe! I have had so many years drudgery at them, I feel, without egotism, that I am now fairly entitled to do something better, and you are The person to whom I naturally turn to help me out of The Slough of Despond. If I could never do any poetic work, and had no chance of doing anything but portraiture, I should prefer giving up Art altogether, for I am sick of faces, faces, face, and not always the most beautiful! The admiration which you expressed for my ‘Virgilia’ with the commissions for ‘Elaine’ and ‘Ophelia’ encourage me to hope you will do what you can to help me towards this ‘consummation devoutly to be wished’. You may in the transaction of your business help me in two ways, by buying my pictures, and helping me to sell my poetical works. With the exception of some sketches and old pictures that would be of no use to you I am willing to sell the whole collection; - what do you say?... Of course my object is to get a sum to invest that I may have something to rely on while I do poetical work and to enable me to refuse portraits, except an important one occasionally...”, 4 sides 8vo, 29 Welbeck Street, 18th January
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
43099
£375
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WOOLNER
(Thomas, 1825-1892, Pre-Raphaelite Sculptor)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Lucas
(Samuel LUCAS, 1811-1865, Journalist and Abolitionist) telling him that Holman HUNT (1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter) “is acquainted with a lady, Mrs Rogers, who has travelled a great deal in Syria and written some papers upon the country which are illustrated by herself from drawings taken from the places mentioned, and she much wishes to have them inserted in ‘Once a Week’, and as he knew that I was acquainted with you he asked if I would write just to mention the lady’s name to you that it might not be altogether strange if she submitted her papers to your notice. I have no doubt you are very much troubled with applications of this kind but as Mr Hunt and also Mr Edward LEAR think highly of the lady’s artistic talents, I thought that you would not be offended with the liberty I have taken...”, 1 side 8vo., 27 Rutland Street, Hampstead, 18th November annotated in another hand as
Item Date:
1859
Stock No:
41939
£325
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ZINKEISEN
(Anna, d. 1976, Portrait Painter)
Fine signature on card
n.d., c.
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
50791
£45
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