MADAM – Your article ‘A great connoisseur of art‘ (News, ATG No 2479) recording the death of the impressive American dealer/collector Richard Feigen, and the obituary in the same edition (right), while rightly lauding the range of his connoisseurship from early Italian art through to Contemporary artists, didn’t mention his passion, and exceptional eye, for British artists such as Richard Wilson, JMW Turner, David Wilkie, RP Bonington and Samuel Palmer.
I well remember his wonderful Wilkie exhibition in Ryder Street, St James’s, in 1994, curated by the late Hamish Miles, and also feeling a hint of shame that it took a New York dealer to reintroduce us to this important Scottish master.
Patrick Bourne
Patrick Bourne & Co, St James’s Place, London SW1A
