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written by this post to that firm demanding an
explanation and an apology.
Your picture by Hoppner, as we arranged,
will be dispatched to you the first week in
April. W. Pratt, the Engraver, has shown to
me an unfinished proof, and it will make
a most lovely engraving. Constant association
with your picture only confirms me in the view
I expressed to you last Season — that "Miss Byng"
is one of the most beautiful pictures by Hoppner I
have ever seen in my life, and I have no
hesitation in saying that should you desire to
dispose of this picture I think I could get you
and offer of a thousand pounds more than the
sum you have agreed to pay me for it.
I trust to have the pleasure of
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seeing you this Season,
Believe me, with all respect,
Your obedient Servant,
Lockett Agnew:
Red Book
folio 47
"Miss Byng"
by
John Hoppner
H.C. Frick Esq.
The Carnegie Steel Co.
Pittsburg.
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written by this post to that firm demanding an
explanation and an apology.
Your picture by Hoppner, as we arranged,
will be dispatched to you the first week in
April. W. Pratt, the Engraver, has shown to
me an unfinished proof, and it will make
a most lovely engraving. Constant association
with your picture only confirms me in the view
I expressed to you last Season — that "Miss Byng"
is one of the most beautiful pictures by Hoppner I
have ever seen in my life, and I have no
hesitation in saying that should you desire to
dispose of this picture I think I could get you
and offer of a thousand pounds more than the
sum you have agreed to pay me for it.
I trust to have the pleasure of
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seeing you this Season,
Believe me, with all respect,
Your obedient Servant,
Lockett Agnew:
Red Book
folio 47
"Miss Byng"
by
John Hoppner
H.C. Frick Esq.
The Carnegie Steel Co.
Pittsburg.
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