Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, "Thomas Cromwell"; and Titian, ca. 1488-1576, "Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap", 1914-1918

Purchased 13 April 1915 from the collection of Sir Hugh Lane through Alice B. Creelman.

Folder contains correspondence with Charles Carstairs, Alice B. Creelman, Arthur M. Grenfell, and a 1918 letter from Joseph Duveen with accompanying extract of a letter from Bernard Berenson. Creelman's letters include references to works by Gainsborough, Goya, and Uccelli, as well as Titian and Holbein. The painting referred to by Duveen and Berenson is Portrait of a Man, variously attributed to either Titian or Giorginone, and is not the Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap acquired by Frick. In addition to correspondence, folder also contains memorandum vouchers (Nos. 4593 and 4595), newspaper clippings, and red envelopes, along with items from the Red Book. Red envelope lists painter as Giorgione; the name Titian is written first, but crossed out.

See also: Letter from Charles Allom to Frick (22 April 1914) in the One East 70th Street Papers, and letters from Frick to C.F.L. de Wild regarding attribution of the painting to Giorgione in the Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series VIII: Letterpress Copybooks (volume 40, pages 332 and 344).