[copy] Spielmann, to Walter Gilbert

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

SP/9/6

Title

[copy] Spielmann, to Walter Gilbert

Date

1 Sep 1924

Level

Item

Extent & medium

2 pieces

Content Description

He regards Alfred Gilbert's contention regarding his elligibility for the post in Rome as fallacious. Despite this, he knows that history will not look kindly on the waste of a great artist such as Gilbert.

He no longer writes about art. He gave it up when constantly requested to deal with the "inanities and insanities with which , for the time being our Art is besmirched". He recommends the Earl of Crawford as a source of help. If Lord Plymouth were alive he would have helped.

Includes an enclosed transcript of part of a letter by Alfred Gilbert.