BIB_ID
354676
Accession number
MA 699.6
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1802 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
A penciled notation at the top of page 4, signed with Beechey's initials and dated 1834, "Not one of them paid for."
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Napier Christie-Burton and others. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir William Beechey was an English portrait painter.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward, Duke of Kent to General Napier Christie-Burton and others. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir William Beechey was an English portrait painter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Informing him that none of the three paintings he expected from him had arrived; specifying that he is referring to the pictures of the King, the Queen and the Duke of York; asking when he might expect them; adding that "the Prince of Wales has promised me a picture of himself and allowed me to make choice of the one which you did of him for the Queen in his Light Dragoon Uniform and which is now at Frogman's to be copied;" reiterating his anxiety at not having the pictures.
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