Lot 65: John Rea Neill (American, 1877-1943) "'I have searched,' he went on quietly, his eyes narrowing, 'for twenty years for a man big enough to succeed me. To move in, when I move out'"

"'I have searched,' he went on quietly, his eyes narrowing, 'for twenty years for a man big enough to succeed me. To move in, when I move out'" illustration for Frederick Irving Anderson's "The King's Thumb, A Story of Wall Street," Everybody's Magazine, December 1919, p 46.
Signed and titled.
Pen and ink.
40 x 29cm (15 3/4 x 11 7/16in).

Apparently Neill used the Pierpont Morgan Library as the locale of this picture. He has added in pencil in the lower margin: "Note--MSS. says beard on 'young man'--and gate bars." Neither appear in the picture; Neill seems to have shaved the gentleman's face. The frame too was removed.