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[John Callcott Horsley, English painter.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to Doyne Courtenay Bell, Keeper of the Privy Purse, regarding the possible inclusion of a painting from the queen’s collection in a Royal Academy exhibition.

Author: 
John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903), English painter [Doyne Courtenay Bell (1830-1888), Keeper of the Privy Purse]
Publication details: 
17 and 18 December 1886; each on letterhead of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
£45.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The two items in good condition, lightly discoloured, and each folded twice. Both addressed to ‘Doyne . C . Bell’. ONE (17 December 1886): 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. Signed ‘J. Callcott Horsley. He explains the reason for not writing sooner: ‘I waited to see how our wants were likely to be as to small pictures’. The picture that Bell describes ‘must be a very interesting one’, and Horsley would ‘much like to see it’.

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