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Call Number:
MSS 22
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
O'Neil, Henry, 1817–1880
Title(s):
Henry O'Neil letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1874 April 9
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 2, folder 90
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

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:
"My Dear Redgrave, Since hanging Wilkie etc. I turned to your 'Century of Painters' - you say, therein, that Egg's 'Life and Death of Buckingham' was cut in half - to the best of my recollection the pictures and frame are as they appeared on the RA walls - I have been pestered with abuse for hanging spurious pictures - you know what a Pig-headed old Tory I am - I would have excluded at least twenty pictures had I not been opposed by that fatal demand - 'The pictures have been asked for, and must be hung' - I do not relish my position entailing bad judgement, when I had no power - yours ever, Henry O'Neil"
Additional Notes:
Addressed from: 7 Victoria Rd. Kensington
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page): autograph letter, signed ; 18.5 x 23 cm folded to 18.5 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
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450134
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450134?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1