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Autograph letter signed : Balfour Castle, to Charles Appleton, 1875 April 27.

BIB_ID
192916
Accession number
MA 3956
Creator
Balfour, David, 1811-1887.
Display Date
1875 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased Mr. David Granger, 1984.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Charles Appleton was the founder and also editor (1869-1878) of "The Academy / Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art."
Provenance
Purchased on The Fellows Fund as a gift of David Granger in 1984.
Summary
Concerning his collection of family portraits; saying he was too unwell to visit him when he was in London; expressing his sympathy at the news of Mr. Sayce's accident on his way to Orkney and commenting on Sayce's "interesting lectures;" explaining that he can provide "...little information about my portrait of Milton - It has been here more than a century and been known in the family as an original Portrait of the poet painted by Robert Walker, the 'Parliamentarian Vandyck' - It has never been photographed - It came to me from my great grand uncle F.M. John Earl Ligonier to whom I owe most of my pictures;" listing 14 portraits in his family and the artists he believes painted them which include a portrait of Milton by Robert Walker, ancestral portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Raeburn and Sir Godfrey Kneller, a portrait of Charles I by William Dobson and a small portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger; adding "Beyond constant and consistent family tradition I have no proof of any of my portraits or their painters...but I like them and believe in them implicitly myself;" asking to be remembered to Mr. Sayce and asking for "...the name & Publisher of the pamphlet proving the AngloSaxon race to be the Lost Tribes."