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[[preprinted]]
Herbert N. Bier
PAINTINGS
WORKS OF ART
[[/preprinted]]

2 Strathearn Place, 
Hyde Park Square, 
London W.2.

8th June 1960.

Mr. Germain Seligman,
Hotel Ritz,
Paris,
France.

Dear Mr. Seligman,

I should like to thank you for your hospitality - I very much enjoyed spending most of yesterday together with you.

Please note that I have to leave on Monday morning at 8.30 sharp, so if you want to ring me please do so at about 8 a.m.

I have today looked at the book on Holbein by Ganz.  There is no picture similar or identical with the one offered to you.  There is, however, a picture of the same sitter - Charles Brandon - as an old man, which also belonged to Fishmann [[strikethrough]] in 1932 [[/strikethrough]].  The whereabouts of this picture is not given.  It came from the same collection as the picture offered to you.  I also checked at the Witt library, there is one photograph of your picture, owner [[underlined]] N. Fischmann [[/underlined]] [[^1932]].  It is also given to the Master of Queen Mary Tudor, published in [[underlined]] Burlington Magazine, May 1937,[[/underlined]] by Professor Ganz (page 410).  It gives the provenance of the Marquis of Hastings, Countess of Loudon and Lord Donnington. There are also copies of certificates by Gluck and Baldass, both for Holbein the Younger.  The picture was twice exhibited, 1866 in the South Kensington Museum, No.71, and 1890 in the New Gallery, No.136.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

[[signature]] HerbertBier [[/signature]]