SD2311. Thomas Buchanan Read to F.J. Dreer
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 338.
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28 December 1859
… I have just seen the engraving of Mrs Browning it is very satisfactory, though I think the eyes might be made a little more shadowy and the mouth a little more severe—not quite so sweet and smiling. I feel a good deal of interest in this portrait of Mrs B. as it [is] one of the very few portraits for which the lady ever sat and I consider it one of the best likenesses I have ever made.
Yours very truly
T. Buchanan Read
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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