Item #67242 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.”. served from South Carolina in the U. S. House of Representatives, U S. Minister to Mexico, U S. Secretary of War, importing what is now known as the poinsettia.
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.”

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 Mr. Kellogg; on verso of a blank integral leaf is a quick pencil sketch (5 x 3 cm), a profile chest-length portrait of a well-dressed gentleman. Old fold lines, but very good. Item #67242

Price: $250.00

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