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Call Number:
MSS 22
Creator:
Bell, John Zephaniah, 1794-1883
Title(s):
John Zephaniah Bell to letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1876 June 5
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 10
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The 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:
"Dear Sir, I have for some years back wished to make a confession of a matter which has lain heavy on my mind. When, long ago, there were in abeyance some changes in your direction of our Schools of Design--I happened to call on Mr. Deverell --and speaking of Design he said to me 'If you wish to have to do with us you should ['have' crossed out] write against our system: I immediately went to look at the Schools, and, to my confusion, was received most courteously by the Master who showed me every thing--I hardly knew what to say--I did--when I was going away mutter something about my intentions--but I felt that I should, at the very first, have distinctly declared for what hostile purpose I had come--I recollect wishing to turn back but that would hardly have done after having obtained wht I had so unhandsomely learned. Some four or five years ago I wrote this sort of letter for the Master who had received me so well, but I sent it to the wrong person for I could not recollect whether he was Mr. Buschett or Mr. Burgess: since that time I have done nothing but feel [?] at the recollection. Might I now as you to make this known to him and in sofar ease my mind? Your's dear sir, most obediently, John Zephaniah Bell
Additional Notes:
Addressed from: 2 Abingdon Villas, Kensington W
Physical Description:
1 sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 11.5 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Artists
Etchers
Painters
Painting
Women painters
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Etching Club (London, England)
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855
Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Goodall, Edward A.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880
Linnell, William
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888
Richmond, George, 1809-1896
Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Stanfield, George Clarkson
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
Finding Aid Title:
Letters to Richard Redgrave
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449859
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449859?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1