| Description | Includes:
-letter from Simpson to the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, dated 26 March 1960, and note of a telephone conversation, undated, concerning a work of art titled 'Saint Peter denying Christ' by G. Segre
-two letters exchanged between Lord Bessborough and Simpson, dated 23 April and 3 May 1963, concerning the latter's purchase of 'Lovers in Arbour' by William Powell Frith, Knoedler's stock number A3732
-'A Catalogue of the well known valuable and truly capital collection of pictures, forming an assemblage of the great and most admired masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools,...formed by the late Earl of Besborough, deceased....which will be sold by auction by Mr Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Thursday, February 5, 1801, and two following days...'. This has been annotated and interleaved by Simpson with notes which give details of buyers, prices, and subsequent sales.
-handwritten notes concerning sales from the Earl of Bessborough's collection in 1850, undated (3pp) |