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A series of four informative Autograph Letters Signed ‘Wynne Apperley’, to Mr. Grundy, about the exhibition of Apperley’s paintings, hoping to get photographs in The Connoisseur, mentioning is work ‘Playmates’ which has sold for 100 guineas “(not bad in these times!)”, agreeing to lend pictures for reproduction. About 10 pp., a few surface blemishes (obscuring one word), generally good. Ranchi, Bushey, Hertfordshire, one dated 15 November 1913. George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884 Ventnor – 1960 Tangier) was educated at Eagle House, Sandhurst and at Uppingham School prior to studying art at Herkomer Academy, Bushey, Herts. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, 1905 and then mounted his first individual exhibition in London, 1906. He was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolour Artists in 1913.