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2. An interesting fact is mentioned by Tyrrell-Gill in his work on Turner concerning the painting "Cologne" as follows:

"...When he (Turner) found that one of his own continental subjects - Cologne: the Packet Boat Arriving' - so glowed with colour that it quite dimmed Lawrence's pictures place beside it, and that he thus overshadowed his brother-artist, he good-naturedly glazed his own over with lamp-black, saying that it would wash off after the Exhibition, and that he could not endure Lawrence's distress." (From "Turner" by Frances Tyrrell-Gill, London, 1904, pages 58/59)

E. V. Lucas in his work on "British Pictures and their Painters," published last year, also makes reference to this incident, but does not name the painting which Turner "had darkened with lamp-black because it injured the effect of pictures by Sir Thomas Lawrence on either side, saying that Lawrence was so unhappy about it." I met Dr. de Wilt yesterday and learned from him that the Holbein panel shows fractures at the back, ^as he remembers, a dent on the front, which may or may not have been caused by the violent usage to which it is supposed to have been subjected. Hoping that you are rapidly recovering your strength, I am, Very truly yours, signed J. H. Bridge

Mr. H. C. Frick, Prides Crossing, Massachusetts.

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