Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, William Bell Scott letter to Richard Redgrave, 1879 November 4
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
- Title(s):
- William Bell Scott letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1879 November 4
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 104
- 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:
- "My Dear Redgrave, do you know enough of my writings on Art and of my paintings to do me the honor of giving me your good word in the shape of a 'Treatment' for the chair of Fine Arts, lately endowed in the University of Edinburgh? Perhaps you know my 'Half hour lectures on Art' first published long ago, which were the first, exactly of that kind, delivered in a school to students. My little book on the 'Little Masters' has just been published, wherein I fancy I have added a page to the history of Art by writing on the fact that Modern Art - Secular Painting- Genre in all its forms, rose out of the work issued by the Painters and Engravers of Germany. I could send it you if you care to read it. I must say however though I am asking you for a 'testimonial' I do not wish it now. Sir Alex Grant, the Principal of the University, tells me the Chair is not yet created, though endowed years ago by the brother and sister of Sir I. Watson Gordon, and until the duties and conditions are defined and advertised I cannot determine on becoming a candidate. I bring the matter before you at this moment, because half a dozen of my intimate friends have already told me they have given their support in writing for P.G. Hamerton who is the only candidate as yet in the field. My Dear Mr Redgrave, I am very truly yours, William B. Scott."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from 92 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 17 x 22 cm folded to 17.5 x 11 cm
- 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/3450160
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450160?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1