British art historian (1907-1983) who was stripped of his knighthood when he confessed to having been a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s. TLS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art letterhead, March 6, 1967. Letter to T. H. Thompson, in part: "I showed the photographs of your picture to Michael Levey, and he pointed out that it is a copy in reverse of one of the Zuccarelli's in the Royal Collection, No. 701 in his catalogue. He suggests that there may be a reversed engraving on which your painting is based, although in fact the engravings he knows are all in the same sense as the picture in the Royal Collection." In fine condition.
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