Bell, John, 1811–1895, John Bell letter to Richard Redgrave, 1864 March 5
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Bell, John, 1811–1895
- Title(s):
- John Bell letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1864 March 5
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 9
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Bell thanks Redgrave for his kind words about the hat on the Imogen sculpture. He describes his attempt to "unite" the "picturesqueness in the views all round with some degree of beauty & timid awkwardness in the woman's drawing a sword." He suspects the sculpture will not "find favor with the classical school who are always looking back to the pagans." He writes that he "fancied that the subject for the art union should be such as might be popular." Bell hopes that a subject from Shakespeare "is not inopportunate to the present year." He describes Imogen as a "less abject Griselda." Bell prefers to work in marble rather than sculpt in clay and claims to have carved almost all of his own works in marble, defending himself against claims otherwise.
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from: […] Place W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 page) : autograph letter, signed ; 18.5 x 22.5 cm folded to 18.5 x 11.25
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtistsEtchersPaintersPaintingWomen painters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865Etching Club (London, England)Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909Gilbert, John, 1817-1897Goodall, Edward A.Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894Holl, Francis, 1815-1884Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880Linnell, WilliamMaclise, Daniel, 1806-1870Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888Richmond, George, 1809-1896Roberts, David, 1796-1864Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877Stanfield, George ClarksonStreet, George Edmund, 1824-1881Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
- Finding Aid Title:
- Letters to Richard Redgrave
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449856
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449856?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1