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example of that period but personally I should not advise your buying is at such a figure since as you know I do not think | |||
example of that period but personally I should not advise your buying is at such a figure since as you know I do not think these early works nearly so characteristic or imaginative as the later ones. However you must decide & in this case if you care to act please send me a cable. Anyhow this will forewarn you in case the picture should subsequently be offered to you at a great advance in price. | |||
4. I have come across another Rubens portrait, that of the Arch Duke Albert, governor of the Netherlands of which I send you a photograph. It is slightly later than the one I have just sent you - presumably a finer and more imposing picture, very rich & brilliant in colour. The price asked is £10,000 but as I was offered a commission which I shall decline I can get it for £9000. I think this a very desirable picture. | |||
5. Mr. J.G. Johnson has told you I understand about a large & splendid Venetian landscape attributed to Basaiti but which I have since found to be by Cinsa | |||
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example of that period but personally I should not advise your buying is at such a figure since as you know I do not think these early works nearly so characteristic or imaginative as the later ones. However you must decide & in this case if you care to act please send me a cable. Anyhow this will forewarn you in case the picture should subsequently be offered to you at a great advance in price.
4. I have come across another Rubens portrait, that of the Arch Duke Albert, governor of the Netherlands of which I send you a photograph. It is slightly later than the one I have just sent you - presumably a finer and more imposing picture, very rich & brilliant in colour. The price asked is £10,000 but as I was offered a commission which I shall decline I can get it for £9000. I think this a very desirable picture.
5. Mr. J.G. Johnson has told you I understand about a large & splendid Venetian landscape attributed to Basaiti but which I have since found to be by Cinsa
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