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Duveen Brothers 720 Fifth Avenue New York
November Thirtieth
1914
A. Braddel, Esq.
c/o H. C. Frick, Esq.
14 Wall Street,
New York City.
Dear Sir: We are sorry that we have not before this further replied to your letter of September 8th, but we have been awaiting complete reply from London. We note that they have approached Mr. Algernon Graves, one of the authors of Graves and Cronin's History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and he writes us as follows:-
Algernon Graves,
42 Old Bond Street,
London, W.
November 9th, 1914.
To Messrs. Duveen Bros.,
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your enquiry about the picture of Lady Taylor. When I wrote my Reynolds book in 1899 I had never seen or heard of the half length picture in a hat and in my description of the head size also in a hat I concluded Mr. Kann's picture was the one engraved by Scott and consequently what I have stated on page 957 is in error and should I ever publish a fifth volume of the work I shall make it quite clear that the Kann was never engraved at all previous to the recent reproduction. I consider your description in the catalogue of your Exhibition is vertually correct. I remain,
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) Algernon Graves.