Letter from Arthur J. Sulley to Henry Clay Frick, 25 October 1915
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NOV 9 1915
FORWARDED from NY
REFERRED
ANSWERED
SULLEY & COMPANY,
A. J. SULLEY.
J. M. BROWN.
TELEGRAMS; "TERBURG," LONDON.
TELEPHONE No. 5248 GERRARD.
159, NEW BOND STREET. W.
Oct 25 1915
Dear Sir
I was very sorry not to come to New York last winter as I much wanted to see your new house which I hear is superb.
The trend of the war seems to make it very unlikely that I will come there this winter, and the same reasons make me feel that I cannot look forward to seeing you here for sometime to come.
In consequence of the Zeppelin raids I am deprived of the pleasure of seeing the Van Dyck, it is more than a year since I saw it last. I am therefore more anxious to sell it than I was, as I get no pleasure out of it.
You now have your pictures in your new gallery
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and so can arrange a place for it, if you still have the idea of buying it.
I can only repeat what I have told you - that it is Van Dyck's finest subject picture, and that it would make a variety with the magnificent pictures of that master which you already have, and your collection of works by Van Dyck would then be unrivalled. The historical interest of the picture, having been the first picture which he painted for King Charles I and through which he obtained his position with that monarch, is very great.
The supply of fine pictures seems to be about exhausted. I have not seen a picture worthy of your collection, for sale since the war started.
Yrs faith[full]y,
Arthur J. Sulley
H. C. Frick Esq.
FORWARDED from NY
REFERRED
ANSWERED
SULLEY & COMPANY,
A. J. SULLEY.
J. M. BROWN.
TELEGRAMS; "TERBURG," LONDON.
TELEPHONE No. 5248 GERRARD.
159, NEW BOND STREET. W.
Oct 25 1915
Dear Sir
I was very sorry not to come to New York last winter as I much wanted to see your new house which I hear is superb.
The trend of the war seems to make it very unlikely that I will come there this winter, and the same reasons make me feel that I cannot look forward to seeing you here for sometime to come.
In consequence of the Zeppelin raids I am deprived of the pleasure of seeing the Van Dyck, it is more than a year since I saw it last. I am therefore more anxious to sell it than I was, as I get no pleasure out of it.
You now have your pictures in your new gallery
[end of page 1]
[beginning of page 2]
and so can arrange a place for it, if you still have the idea of buying it.
I can only repeat what I have told you - that it is Van Dyck's finest subject picture, and that it would make a variety with the magnificent pictures of that master which you already have, and your collection of works by Van Dyck would then be unrivalled. The historical interest of the picture, having been the first picture which he painted for King Charles I and through which he obtained his position with that monarch, is very great.
The supply of fine pictures seems to be about exhausted. I have not seen a picture worthy of your collection, for sale since the war started.
Yrs faith[full]y,
Arthur J. Sulley
H. C. Frick Esq.
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