INTRODUCING A YOUNG ARTIST TO HIS FRIEND ROBERT GILMOR, in an autograph letter, signed by Poinsett in Washington, November 25, 1840, to Gilmor in Baltimore, in part: "This will be presented to you by Mr. Kellogg a young artist of great merit ... [he] visits Baltimore with no other view than to examine the pictures in your collection. As a portrait painter he is very desirous of an opportunity to examine the paintings of Sir Thomas Lawrence of which you possess two find specimens."
by POINSETT, Joel R. (1779-1851; served from South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1821-1825, U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1825-1829 [importing what is now known as the poinsettia], and U.S. Secretary of War, 1837-1841)
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4to. One-page, approximately 100 words. Gilmor (1774-1848), a merchant and collector, was "one of the most significant art collectors and patrons in the United States before 1850" (Lance Humphries, "Robert Gilmor, Jr. [1774-1848]: Baltimore Collector and American Art Patron," UVA Library online abstract). We have not been able to identify Mr. Kellogg; on verso of a blank integral leaf is a quick pencil sketch (5 x 3 cm), a profile chest-length portrait of a well-dressed gentleman. Old fold lines, but very good.
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- INTRODUCING A YOUNG ARTIST TO HIS FRIEND ROBERT GILMOR, in an autograph letter, signed by Poinsett in Washington, November 25, 1840, to Gilmor in Baltimore, in part: "This will be presented to you by Mr. Kellogg a young artist of great merit ... [he] visits Baltimore with no other view than to examine the pictures in your collection. As a portrait painter he is very desirous of an opportunity to examine the paintings of Sir Thomas Lawrence of which you possess two find specimens."
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- POINSETT, Joel R. (1779-1851; served from South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1821-1825, U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1825-1829 [importing what is now known as the poinsettia], and U.S. Secretary of War, 1837-1841)
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