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Previous | Next 		Letter from Stanley Lane-Poole, the donor of the portrait, to Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 28 March 1893, giving information about the artist and the work.
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Stevenage. Herts.
28. Mar. xciii

Dear Sir
Your arrangements about the statue of Lane are most considerate & admirable.
Richard James Lane was the elder brother of the Orientalist & the statue is entirely his work. It is not his only effort in sculpture, though I think it is his best. The others were chiefly busts of his own children. Chantrey was very much impressed with Lane's work, & told him