LUNDGREN (EGRON SELLIF, 1815-1875, Swedish water-colour painter) FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ('E Lundgren'), to the engraver Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889), reporting having completed a portrait of one of the Swedish princes, giving his opinion of Landseer ('...I don't know anyone ready to step into his shoes...he may be looked upon rather as a very clever and gifted Single talent than as having influenced much art...'), describing his own retirement and circumstances and trusting that Barlow is similarly idle ('...working in your billiard table or sucking your cigar, pleasantly strolling in the gay sunshine in Kensington gardens, leaving the studio and the steel plates to take care of themselves...'), anticipating making a trip to Florence together, recalling earlier times in England, explaining why he is not coming over at that time and cannot send anything for the Pall Mall exhibition, mentioning the publication of some of his travel diaries, and thanking Barlow for his kindness and for performing commissions particularly with regard to pictures and frames and for a proof before letters of one of his works, 16 pages, octavo, some traces of former mounting down inner edges, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 September to 5 December 1873

Egron Lundgren made the acquaintance of the painter John Phillip (mentioned in these letters) while on the continent. He later resided in England and received commissions from the Queen for some ceremonial pictures and other subjects and died in Stockholm where he had retired.

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