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Dear Mrs.Spreckles,

I hope you remember my having met you through our mutual friend, Mr. Raymond Armsby, during the time I was at the Ritz connected with the Bachstitz Galleries.  Now, I take pleasure in informing you that I have made new business connections, being associated with Messrs. Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.

I am pleased to tell you that we have brought over to the States this year a number of very interesting paintings of the English School.  One picture of special interest is, perhaps, together with "Pinkie" the most important English pictures now in America.  The picture I refer to is Sir Thomas LAWRENCE's famous portrait of the great Austrian statesman Prince Metternich, which was painted at the Congress of Vienna when Prince Metternich headed this conference dictating the peace terms of the Allied Powers to France.  In "The Choicest Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence", this painting is fully described and reproduced being mentioned as one of LAWRENCE's greatest works. LAWRENCE painted two portraits of the Prince; the companion of this one is now hanging in the English royal collection at Windsor Castle.

Perhaps, it might interest you to look


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