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Letter from Alice Creelman to Henry Clay Frick, 18 August 1919
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[beginning of page 2] give a most interesting story of the painting of this picture which is the most famous of all the Lady Hamilton portraits. When in England I went to visit at Tankerville Chamberlyne's and saw this picture and many others in his beautiful Adam drawing room. The old man has several portraits of Lady Hamilton by Romney and Sir Joshua and a beauty of her by the French woman, Madame Vigee Le Brun. He would part with the others perhaps but he does not want to let go the "Bacchante." I should not like to see the [end of page 2]