.NTIx.Njcy

[Beginning of Page 3]

(2)

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 Cima

[End of Page 3]