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Beginning of Page 2 of the 'Countess of Clanbrasil' by Sir A. Van Dyck, + it occurs to me that being a very exceptional picture you would be interested in it. The size of the canvass is 83 x 49 1/2 in + was painted in 1636 : it represents the full length figure of the Countess standing in a landscape, in light blue gown with low-cut bodice + pearl ornaments. The Countess of Clanbrasil was Anne Carey, daughter of Henry Earl of Monmouth of the Denbigh family. This picture is famous throughout Europe having been exhibited at several exhibitions in London + Paris etc, the last occasion was at Brussels in 1910; I am enclosing you the expert review of same which appeared in "The Times," + it is, as you will see, considered the grandest example of Van Dyck's own work throughout, unique in embracing the Van Dyck blue in mass introduced in the gown. Offers of £40,000 for the painting have been refused some years ago, + before the war Lord Denbigh refused to sell it, but owing to war losses, he has now asked me to find a private purchaser + will accept £30,000. His Lordship will give a written guarantee with the picture, + the only conditions are that the purchaser allows a copy of the work to be painted,, + that the original frame be left to take the copy, as this frame matches six others in the same room at his Castle, Newhaven Paddox??. You will, I hope, be able to judge from what I have written of the importance End of Page 2