Manuscripts

H.C.B. Brandon letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Edward R. Bacon estate, Sir Joseph Duveen, art by Raeburn and Reynolds.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923 May 9
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: list of articles sent for approval; list of objects sent on approval; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen; black-and-white photograph of Turner's "The Marriage of the Adriatic." Subjects: Drouais' Bouchet family, Houdon bronze, Boucher tapestries, Guedalla and Lewis & Simmons case, Lawrence painting of Mrs. Peel, Washington portrait, death of Henry Duveen, Huntington's trip to Paris, Huntington's degree from NYU, Blue Boy purchase, Chelsea vases, Reynolds' "Strawberry Girl," Raeburn portrait of Sir Walter Scott, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice W. Brockwell, British parliamentary elections, Solomon collection, and James B. Ballard.

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Maurice W. Brockwell letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copies of correspondence between Brockwell and Sir Joseph Duveen, 1923-1925. Subjects: Catalogue of art objects owned by Huntington.

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LaSalle C. Pickett letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Sir Joseph Duveen.

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V.G. Fischer Art Galleries letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: printed catalog from Victor G. Fischer Galleries, photocopy of newspaper article about Hoppner portrait of "Mrs. Munroe," and other documents. Subjects: paintings by Raeburn, Reynolds, Constable, Le Brun, Boucher.

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Seligmann & Co. letters to Arabella Huntington

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Some items are photocopies; originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: invoice for items purchased by Arabella Huntington, 1910 May-October. Subjects: Jacques Neilson, Sir Joseph Duveen, Francois Boucher tapestries.

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J. Beverley MacLaughlin letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copies of four letters from Huntington to MacLaughlin, 1923 September-November; copy of four letters from Duveen Bros. to MacLaughlin, 1923 September 9-25. Subjects: a Lady Hamilton painting by Joshua Reynolds and a painting by J.M.W. Turner.

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H.C.B. Brandon letter to Henry E. Huntington

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