?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BROWNING, ROBERT. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to painter of his portrait Samuel Laurence: "I shall have pleasure in sitting to you whenever you please to appoint; rather in the afternoon than the morning; if your arrangements permit, I can do this now--but may be less at liberty soon." ½ page, 8vo, with integral blank; folds. [London], 3 May 1866
In his letter to Isa Blagden on November 26, 1866, Browning wrote, "I have just sat to Lawrence [sic] for another--and have to repeat the process--which is tiresome in these quick photographing days--but he is a charming person . . . ." (Dearest Isa: Robert Browning's Letters to Isa Blagden, ed. E.C. McAleer [1951]).
