Documents associated with: Loan exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of the St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital, National Academy of Design, New York, 1895
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System Number: 09874
Date: 16 October 1895
Author: Edward Hamilton Bell[1]
Place: New York
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: New York
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy I/70 (71?)
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: TLS
LOAN EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST. JOHN'S GUILD AND THE ORTHODŒDIC HOSPITAL, AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, NEW YORK CITY, 1895.
[three lists of names, headed: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, LADIES' COMMITTEE and ARTISTS' COMMITTEE[3]]
FRANCIS LATHROP, CHAIRMAN,
J. CARROLL BECKWITH,
WILLIAM M. CHASE,
H. SIDDONS MOWBRAY,
BENJAMIN C. PORTER,
STANFORD WHITE,
EASTMAN JOHNSON.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN,
COR. OF FOURTH AVENUE AND 23RD STREET.
NEW YORK,
Oct. 16th, 1895.
E. G. Kennedy, Esq.,
My dear Sir: -
The Art Committee requests me to ask of you the favour of the loan of the portraits of yourself by Wisler[4] [sic] and by Chase[5] for the forthcoming Exhibition.
Pictures will be received here any day this week from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.
If you decide to grant us this favour, will you kindly fill out the enclosed blank for catalogue purposes and return it to me as soon as possible.
Yours truly,
Edw Hamilton Bell
Secretary.
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Notes:
1. Edward Hamilton Bell
Edward Hamilton Bell (1857-1929), artist, writer, actor and stage designer [more].
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more].
3. ARTIST'S COMMITTEE
The names listed are: Francis Augustus Lathrop (1849-1909), portrait and mural painter [more]; James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), painter [more]; William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), painter [more]; Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928), mural and allegorical painter [more]; Benjamin Curtis Porter (1845-1908), portrait painter and sculptor [more]; Stanford White (1853-1906), architect [more]; and Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), portrait and genre painter and printmaker [more]
4. portraits of yourself by Wisler
Portrait of E. G. Kennedy (2) (YMSM 404) was exhibited at the Loan exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of the St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital, National Academy of Design, New York, 1895.
5. Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), painter [more]. W. M. Chase, Edward Guthrie Kennedy, was painted in around 1895.