Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1960 Oct. 24.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1960 Oct. 24.

Thanking him for a copy of his book Looking at Pictures, noting it has made her come alive again; discussing the book and praising his work; looking forward to lunching with him and Jane on the 3rd.

1 item (5 p.) ; 17.8 cm

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Clark, Jane, Lady.

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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...