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November 24, 1925

Mrs. E. J. Clark,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dear Mrs. Clark,

We would like to call your attention to a very fine painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds which we have just acquired.

It is another version of Lord Lansdowne's famous picture "Hope Nursing Love." As compared with the Lansdowne painting, ours has a delightful sketchy and spontaneous quality to it, which one rarely sees in Reynold's important works.

It comes from a private collection in England, and it is, undoubtedly, one of the most important 18th Century pictures which has come to America in recent years. It is now in our New York galleries, and we would be pleased to show it to you at any time you could conveniently call.

If you feel that you would be at all interested in it, we would be pleased to send you further particulars upon hearing from you.

Hoping to be favored with your reply, we are

Yours very truly,

JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., Inc.

By

Transcription Notes:
Re the painting "Hope Nursing Love": "Reynolds evidently liked his composition as he repeated it thrice.... 'Hope Nursing Love' is at Bowood - Lord Lansdowne's place - another is at Port Eliot - Lord St. Germans' - and a third at Sandye Place, Sir Robert Edgcumbe's." [Sir Joshua Reynolds: His Life and Art; Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, G., Bell & Sons, 1902, p.55]. In addition, many artists copied and engraved this famous image, usually denoted "after Reynolds." Link to Port Eliot: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/hope-nursing-love-miss-morris-as-hope-nursing-cupid-147971 Link for description: https://books.google.com/books?id=3DQkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=reynolds+Hope+Nursing+Love&source=bl&ots=0fa4Q6QGqe&sig=ruDFVyZfuDzpAUXC11ytNm20s4M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit4s_6_-_dAhUDQKwKHb6mC-E4ChDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=reynolds%20Hope%20Nursing%20Love&f=false -mandc