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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Henry W.Phillips’, to Dr Sieveking, about the dispatch of a Proof. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, one filing hole. Annotated by Sieveking: Mr Henry W.Phillips relative to my portrait. Undated [watermark 1848]. Uncommon. Henty Wyndham Phillips (1820-1868), portrait painter. His commissions included the portraits of actor Charles Kean (as Louis XI) for the Garrick Club, Dr William Prout for the Royal College of Physicians, and Robert Stephenson for the Institution of Civil Engineers. Some of his works, including his portrait of the famous archaeologist, Austen Layard, were popular engravings. Phillips was a close friend of George Frederic Watts, with whom he was a founding member of London’s Cosmopolitan Club.