LONG, Edwin.

Autograph Letter Signed, to Alma Tadema, accepting his invitation to join Tadema’s table at the Artists Benevolent, and inviting Tadema to call: “I should much like to have your opinion of my picture”. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, remains of mount along one edge, 33 Ovington Square, 8 March 1874.

Edwin Longsden Long RA (1829 – 1891) was a successful English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. He is best known for his Orientalist paintings, many very large, which fetched high prices. His The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875, over three metres wide) is perhaps his best known work in this line.