RUTHERSTON (Albert, 1881-1953, Figure & Landscaper Painter, Illustrator)

Autograph Letter Signed to Milner thanking him for his letter enclosing a list relating to items in the Tate, he says he is "busy today packing up the family, we start for N. Wales tomorrow. I join them next week & my wife won't be with me ..." arranging to visit him and continuing "I recognised I believe a fine piece of Heraldic sign painting ... at the B. of E. The student has got either a Free Scholarship or a Royal Exhibition, I forget which, but everybody was pleased with it ...", 1 side 4to., Nash End Cottage, Gloucestershire, 6th July

Albert Daniel Rothenstein was born in Bradford, Yorkshire of German Jewish descent. He was the youngest of six children. Two of his brothers were the painter Sir William Rothenstein and Charles Rutherston, who collected art. His sister Emily Hesslein was also an art collector. He anglicised his surname to Rutherston in 1916 during the First World War as a sign of patriotism for England.
Rutherston became acquainted with Walter Sickert during a painting holiday in France in 1900. In 1904 Rutherston engineered one of the pivotal relationships of the Camden Town Group by introducing Sickert to his friend and Slade colleague, Spencer Gore, during another painting trip. Rutherston later claimed that it was their news and enthusiasm regarding developments in the London art world which encouraged Sickert to return to England in 1905 from his self-imposed exile in Dieppe.

Item Date:  1933

Stock No:  39262      £125

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