Author:
Charles Landseer (1799-1879), R.A., English artist, elder brother of Sir Edwin Landseer
Publication details:
30 January [1870?]; Royal Academy, on letterhead of the Athenaeum Club.
12mo, 2 pp. 15 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. Providing a 'recommendation as a teacher' for his correspondent, 'in the neighbourhood of Leamington'. 'My observation of the progress you have made, during your studentship at the Royal Academy enables me to state, that, you are, in my opinion fully competent to undertake the teaching of the elementary branches of art'. From a small archive of Walter F. Stocks's correspondence.