| Admin/Biog History | Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris. He was a long-time friend of Harold Nicolson, Benedict Nicolson's father. Nicolson's journals reveal he first met Blanche during a visit to Paris in April 1935 (see LBN/1/6). When Nicolson began writing his book on Seurat, he contacted Blanche for information about the artist (see entry for 13th Feb in LBN/1/9). |
| Description | Includes correspondence concerning arrangements to meet; plans for publishing his memoirs and for a show of his paintings.
Of particular note are:
-letter, dated 15 February 1937, concerning Blanche's personal recollections of Seurat, and the 'School of French painting' (6pp)
-letter, dated 24 April 1937, concerning two Constable paintings in his collection, currently stored at the Tate Gallery, which he suggests lending to an exhibition |