INTRODUCING A YOUNG ARTIST TO HIS FRIEND ROBERT GILMOR, in an autograph letter, signed by Poinsett in Washington, November 25, 1840, to Gilmor in Baltimore, in part: “This will be presented to you by Mr. Kellogg a young artist of great merit … [he] visits Baltimore with no other view than to examine the pictures in your collection. As a portrait painter he is very desirous of an opportunity to examine the paintings of Sir Thomas Lawrence of which you possess two find specimens.”
4to. One-page, approximately 100 words. Gilmor (1774-1848), a merchant and collector, was “one of the most significant art collectors and patrons in the United States before 1850” (Lance Humphries, “Robert Gilmor, Jr. [1774-1848]: Baltimore Collector and American Art Patron,” UVA Library online abstract). We have not been able to identify..... More