6 JULY 1912, Page 26

THE COOPERS AND JOHN HOSKINS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Being engaged on an illustrated work dealing with the "in- comparable Samuel Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest English miniature painter), his brother Alexander, and uncle

J ohn Hoskins, &c., I should be greatly obliged if owners of originals by these artists would very kindly favour me with particulars of authenticated examples in their possession, or known to them, with a view to the same being included in my lists. A full description, with the provenance of the miniature and, where practicable, a sight of the original, would be especially Aldwick, Sutton, Surrey.

Author of " Miniature Painters, British and Foreign," " The Stuarts in Art," Au,