DLA123-0178  Transcription

[in another hand] 65 

Savoy Hotel

Paseo del Prado, 26

Madrid

Your Serene Highness.

I wish to thank You for Your kind letter, & I am glad to know the time for painting the two portraits has to which I much look for-ward has been arranged to Your convenience.

I hope to arrive at Your ^the Château de [Marchais?]^[1] on the 3rd S or 4th September. As I like

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to paint my portraits in their frame, to kept keep well the “ensemble”, may I suggest to Your Serene Highness ^kindly to arrange to if it would be possible to get the frames You would wish for the pictures in Paris – The measurements would be as follows, [&?] for the three quarter

for head & shoulders

for three quarter size

As I don’t know yet if I will paint her Serene Highness sitting or standing, I would

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like to have these two different sized for choice to the following measurements

Or if Your Serene Highness prefers it, I would gladly select genuine old frames in Paris, while on my way home now, & would have them sent in time to Your address in France, with the canvases, or I have a splendid French frame maker in Paris, & wd order very

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good immitation [sic] frame of the Period Louis XIV or XV. which I [imagine?] would [suit?] prefer.

I have given orders to my London & Paris [studio?], to send you photos of my latest which I hope have arrived, & which I ask you kindly to accept.

By the end of this week I shall be through with all the portraits at the Palace here, but my present a address here will find me till the 5th of May, when I shall return to London. - - - -

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I have the honour to remain Yours sincerely.

Editorial Note:

Letter is numbered 65 in another hand; the significance of this is unknown

LR

24/03/2020