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Add. MS a/232/14
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Letters relating to the conservation of the Reynolds portrait of the Duke of Gloucester
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- 1920-21 (Creation)
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22 single sheets, 1 folded sheet
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Six letters between Leggatt Brothers of London and John Burnaby from 1922, two letters from C. Gerald Agnew to A. S. F. Gow dated 1926, a report to Council from Gow dated May 25, 1929 enclosing letters from Morland Agnew, C. Gerald Agnew, A. Dyer of William Dyer & Sons, and R. Langton Douglas, with two further letters from Morland Agnew and A. Daniel dated July 1929. Accompanied by a sheet of information about the portrait.
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- William Frederick (1776–1834), Prince, 2nd Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (Subject)
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792), knight, portrait and history painter and art theorist (Subject)
- Leggatt Brothers (Subject)
- Burnaby, John (1891-1978), theologian (Subject)
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, fine arts dealer (Subject)
- Agnew, Charles Gerald (1882-1954), fine art dealer (Subject)
- Agnew, Charles Morland (1855-1931), fine art dealer (Subject)
- Douglas, Robert Langton (1864-1951), director of the National Gallery of Ireland (Subject)
- Daniel, Sir Augustus Moore (1866-1950) Knight, arts administrator and critic (Subject)
- William Dyer & Sons (1892-1941) picture restorers (Subject)