RIVIERE (Briton, 1840-1920, R.A., English Artist of Huguenot Ancestry who Painted Wild Animals)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Morland telling him that "By all means appropriate the photo which you are heartily welcome to. I am very glad you think the 'Scientific Frontier' improved. The change seemed to me an advantageous one & to tell the story with more directness and simplicity. I added this year to the date of it in the corner ...", with a postscript that he is "very glad indeed that 'A Roman Holiday' has gone to Melbourne", 3 sides 8vo., Flaxley, 82 Finchley Rd, 17th May

A Roman Holiday, is a painting by Briton Riviere of tigers and a gladiator in a ring, it was done in 1881. A Scientific Frontier shows two dogs snarling at each other under a door.

Item Date:  1888

Stock No:  41120      £125

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