Rossetti the salesman – unrecorded letters from Pre-Raphaelite patron’s collection discovered in house clearance
A large cache of letters from Victorian artists including founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) have been consigned to Shropshire auctioneers Trevanion & Dean.
The 66 letters were all written to members of the Ionides family, a dynasty of British art patrons a…