- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 24 March 1924
- Description
- Addressed from Grand Hotel, Cosmolite Place, Charles Rogier 5&6, Brussels. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns his time in Brussels, where he describes some of the art he saw while there including works by [Peter Paul] Rubens, [Eugène] Delacroix, [Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael] and [Rogier] van der Weyden, and meeting 'Franzi's [von Haas] family in law'. Includes original envelope.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased at Sotheby's Sale, 21st -22nd July 1980 [Lot numbers 201,204,208,211,223,224,227,228,229,233,239,245,250,261,262,266]. The letters were gathered from different rooms at Charleston Farmhouse (including the attics), by Quentin Bell, son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. They were lodged in the Library of King's College, Cambridge and then transferred to Sotheby 's in 1980 for the auction.
- Reference
- TGA 8010/5/1311
