William Marchant & Co. Letter to Stanislawa de Karlowska 27 February 1926
William Marchant & Co.
Letter to Stanislawa de Karlowska 27 February 1926
Tate Archive TGA 9210/1/4
William Marchant & Co.
Letter to Stanislawa de Karlowska 27 February 1926
Tate Archive TGA 9210/1/4
This letter details the purchase of Robert Bevan’s The Cab Horse (Tate N05911) from his memorial exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1926.
Transcript
[Letterhead:]
5 REGENT STREET
WATERLOO PLACE
LONDON SW1
WATERLOO PLACE
LONDON SW1
THE GOUPIL GALLERY
WILLIAM MARCHANT & CO
W S MARCHANT
WILLIAM MARCHANT & CO
W S MARCHANT
TELEGRAMS MARCIANDO LONDON
TELEPHONE 3689 GERRARD
TELEPHONE 3689 GERRARD
[Typescript with handwritten corrections:]
February 27th 1926.
Madam,
We are pleased to inform you that the picture “The Cabhorse”, No. 129 in the recent Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, has been purchased at £60.-.-. for the new Sir Joseph Duveen Fund and, as specially arranged with your son, in this case, it will be credited to you at £45.-.-.
We shall be making up in due course the accounts of sales and, in the meantime, are enclosing a cheque of £100.-.-. on account, for which we shall be pleased to have an acknowledgment on the accompanying form.
Yours faithfully,
[Stamped:] WILLIAM MARCHANT & C.o
We shall be making up in due course the accounts of sales and, in the meantime, are enclosing a cheque of £100.-.-. on account, for which we shall be pleased to have an acknowledgment on the accompanying form.
Yours faithfully,
[Stamped:] WILLIAM MARCHANT & C.o
Mrs. Bevan.
How to cite
William Marchant & Co., Letter to Stanislawa de Karlowska, 27 February 1926, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication, May 2012, https://www