Autograph Letter Signed from the English painter Adrian Allinson to fellow-artist Jean Inglis.

Author: 
Adrian Allinson (1890-1959), English artist [Jean Inglis]
Autograph Letter Signed from the English painter Adrian Allinson
Publication details: 
29 March 1956. Postmark of St John's Wood, London.
£56.00
SKU: 9928

4to, 2 pp. 46 lines. Clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. He thanks her for putting the commission of 'Mr Proger' his way, discussing the circumstances. 'Just 3 days before I received his letter, while Molly & I were making some sort of order in the Augean Stable which is my lower studio, workshop & general storage place I came across this little panel (a view of Burleigh) which I had thrown asside [sic] as a dud. [...] The results of the labour impressed both Molly & my charlady' Allinson studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Westley Russell, 1910-1912. He taught drawing and painting at Westminster School of Art, designed posters for British Railways and was scenic designer for the Beecham Opera Company. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society, which put on a retrospective in 1984.