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Benjamin West letter to Charles Willson Peale, 1783 June 15

Robert C. Graham Collection Of Artists' Letters, 1783-1935 (bulk 1804-1877)

This site provides access to the papers of Robert Claverhouse Graham in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2007. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 100 images.

The Robert C. Graham collection of forty artists' letters dates from 1783 to 1935, with the bulk of the letters dating from 1804 to 1877. Graham, an art dealer and collector, compiled the unrelated letters of several late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century painters such as Thomas Biddle, Thomas Doughty, G. P. A. Healy, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Emanuel Leutze, Samuel F. B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Sully, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and others. Read more About this Collection.

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Series 1: Robert C. Graham Collection of Artists' Letters, circa 1783 - circa 1935

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