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Paris, March 18th 1936

Dear Colin Agnew,

Thank you for your lines of March 15th. I forwarded them to Germain and I hope to hear from him about the Lawrence.

The very fine man's portrait, photograph of which you saw, and who looks a little like Henry VIII, is given by Friedlander to Vermeyen. He reproduced it in his last book on Vermeyen.

The picture was known in 1846 as a Holbein, was exhibited since right and left, in Germany and in England, till finally it was in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in 1927, where Dr.Bode called it a Joos von Cleve.

Immediately afterwards, Dr. Friedlander gave it to Scorel. As you see, he has now changed his opinion, and published 
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the picture, as I told you, as a Vermeyen, that he considers as a matter of fact in his last classification of Flemish painters, as a much more important artist than Scorel.

You certainly remember that Vermeyen was court painter to Charles V of Austria, that he went with him to Tunis, and that he made for him the cartoons of the well known tapestries.

Previously, Vermeyen was on duty with the sister of Maximilian, Marguerite of Austria . He painted the portrait of Philippe II of Spain and Henry II of France.

I forgot to ask you whether the Corneille de Lyon was insured on your policy. If not, do you want to insure it, or do you want me to do it?

Please find herewith the proposition of co-operation I spoke to you about. It has naturally note the complete approval of Germain, but I consider that it is the expression of his thought.

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