Autograph Letter Signed, to Miss Starling, explaining he is "engaged to dine with a party of old friends at Lady Eastlake s", but now struck down with bronchites.

BOXALL, Sir William.

Published by 3 pp. 5 x 3 inches, fine.

About this Item

14 Welbeck Street, 19 February, no year given. ". I was kept a prisoner for three hours in a cold damp room." Sir William Boxall RA (1800 1879), English painter and museum director. Between 1827 and 1845 he made a number of trips to Italy to study the old masters. Initially hoping to make his name as a history painter, Boxall later had to turn to the more lucrative genre of portraiture. Among his friends were William Wordsworth, whose portrait he painted, the sculptor John Gibson and the painter Sir Edwin Landseer. He was the executor of the will of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, his predecessor as Director of the National Gallery.

Seller Inventory # 20866

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autograph Letter Signed, to Miss Starling, explaining he is "engaged to dine with a party of old friends at Lady Eastlake s", but now struck down with bronchites.
• Publisher: 3 pp. 5 x 3 inches, fine.