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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.