Letter from L. Alma-Tadema, 34 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, to Sir Isidore [Spielmann]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/1/98

Title

Letter from L. Alma-Tadema, 34 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, to Sir Isidore [Spielmann]

Date

03 Nov 1910

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece, 2pp.

Previous reference codes

SB 80 c

Content Description

Alma-Tadema is amazed that Spielmann has chosen his picture called '3,000 years ago' to represent English art at the Roman Exhibition: a painting that was in a sense irreparably damaged in a gas explosion in 1866. Why had he not chosen the Aitchison portrait, or a more modern picture?

Acquisition Details

Presented by Mrs. Lionel Cohen, 1938.