| Description | Includes:
-three newspaper cuttings concerning the sale of the Sheffield family portraits
-newspaper cutting advertising a publication The girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd, by Maria Josepha Holroyd Stanley, 1897. Her portrait by Downman was lot 5 in the auction sale of 11 December 1909
-postcard to William Roberts from Frank Rinder, St John's Wood, dated 3 March 1921, concerning a portrait of a gentleman by Abraham De Vries, lot 141 in the auction sale of 11 December 1909
-newspaper cutting concerning the presentation of the Abraham de Vries portrait to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
-newspaper cutting concerning changes at Sheffield Park since the death of the Earl of Sheffield
-letter/cable to William Roberts from James B Townsend, American Art News, dated 1 March 1915, concerning a picture 'sold in good faith'
-newspaper cutting, by Lionel Cust, concerning an 'expert' battle over a painting of The Young Samson attributed to Rembrandt
-two pages of notes
11 items pasted into: Christie, Manson & Woods (1909) Family portraits and works by old masters. [Auction catalogue] London: Christie, Manson & Woods
[Available in the Paul Mellon Centre's Library, see URL below] |