CURTIS RALPH WORMELEY: (1854-1922)
CURTIS RALPH WORMELEY: (1854-1922) American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style. A.L.S., Ralph Curtis, four pages, 8vo, Palazzo Barbaro, Canal Grande, Venice, n.d. (´Samedi´), to Aldo, in French. Curtis informs his friend that Mrs. Hunter only stayed in Milan for one evening, adding ´Puisqu´elle vient d´acheter ici beaucoup de meubles Vénitiens elle voulait voir les pieces que tu m´a montré - aussi le nez du type qui a refusé d´aller a Londres se faire portraitulé par Sargent à l´oeil´ (Translation: ´As she’s just bought a lot of Venetian furniture here, she wanted to see the pieces you showed me – and also the nose of the chap who refused to go to London to have his portrait painted by Sargent for free´) and also asking what the price of some console tables would be. Curtis further explains that the weather is lovely in Venice, ´l´exposition est vraiment bien´ (Translation: ´the exhibition is really good´), that he will return to Paris on the 21st, and that ´Battistelli m´a encore envoye sa note, sans les frais complimentaires´ (Translation: ´Battistelli has sent me his invoice again, without the complimentary charges´). VG
Mary Hunter (1856–1933) British society hostess and patron of the arts, the wife of the wealthy Northumbrian colliery owner Charles Hunter. A close friend of John Singer Sargent, she sat for him in 1898 in a celebrated full-length portrait now in the Tate, and he subsequently painted her three daughters in The Misses Hunter (1902), also in the Tate. Hunter maintained a particularly close association with the artistic and literary circles of Venice and in 1908 rented the Palazzo Barbaro.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American portrait painter and a distant cousin of Curtis.
CURTIS RALPH WORMELEY: (1854-1922) American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style. A.L.S., Ralph Curtis, four pages, 8vo, Palazzo Barbaro, Canal Grande, Venice, n.d. (´Samedi´), to Aldo, in French. Curtis informs his friend that Mrs. Hunter only stayed in Milan for one evening, adding ´Puisqu´elle vient d´acheter ici beaucoup de meubles Vénitiens elle voulait voir les pieces que tu m´a montré - aussi le nez du type qui a refusé d´aller a Londres se faire portraitulé par Sargent à l´oeil´ (Translation: ´As she’s just bought a lot of Venetian furniture here, she wanted to see the pieces you showed me – and also the nose of the chap who refused to go to London to have his portrait painted by Sargent for free´) and also asking what the price of some console tables would be. Curtis further explains that the weather is lovely in Venice, ´l´exposition est vraiment bien´ (Translation: ´the exhibition is really good´), that he will return to Paris on the 21st, and that ´Battistelli m´a encore envoye sa note, sans les frais complimentaires´ (Translation: ´Battistelli has sent me his invoice again, without the complimentary charges´). VG
Mary Hunter (1856–1933) British society hostess and patron of the arts, the wife of the wealthy Northumbrian colliery owner Charles Hunter. A close friend of John Singer Sargent, she sat for him in 1898 in a celebrated full-length portrait now in the Tate, and he subsequently painted her three daughters in The Misses Hunter (1902), also in the Tate. Hunter maintained a particularly close association with the artistic and literary circles of Venice and in 1908 rented the Palazzo Barbaro.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American portrait painter and a distant cousin of Curtis.
