SARGENT, John Singer (1856-1925). Portrait and landscape painter.
Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Maxwell Lyte, 3 pages small 4to, the last written vertically, The Copley-Plaza [hotel], Boston, 27 February no year. Telling her that he had made two drawings of the Prince of Wales, neither of them satisfactory.

'... I did two drawings of the Prince of Wales that belong to two different people, and that I am not empowered to authorize the reproduction of - and at any rate I must confess that they were both very unsuccessful and that I should really prefer their not not being made public. ...'

Sargent's correspondent may be Frances Fownes (née Somerville), wife of Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte (1848-1940, historian and the effective founder of the modern Public Record office).
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