The Cotman Collection | 68

Cotmania. Vol. XI. 1935-6

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/11
Page: 36 recto, insert recto


  • Description

    Letter to SDK from Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley, 5 August 1936, concerning a portrait of Henry Englefield (1)

    Date:

  • Transcription

    Telephone Brandsby 35.
    Swathgill,
    Hovingham,
    York
    Aug. 5th 1936

    Dear Kitson,
    Many thanks for the photographs which are exceedingly interesting. I have a replica or rather an almost identical pencil portrait here signed by Cotman and named by him Sir H. Englefield, so I think we must conclude that the "To Francis Cholmeley" is only a dedication to my grandfather(?). Don't you think it would be to my grandfather & not great grandfather, as if it had been a dedication to the latter he would have added "Esq.". The photograph shows minute differences in detail of the clothes and the pencil lines are stronger and darker, the pencilling in my portrait

Letter to SDK from Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley, 5 August 1936, concerning a portrait of Henry Englefield (1)