The Engagement 1938

For "The Engagement 1938". I researched the most romantic love letters ever written: These are the quotes used in the painting. Some of them have been edited....

My happiness is to be near you. Incessantly I live over in my memory....Napoleon to Josephine

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved. Also dedicated his "Diabelli Variations Op. 120 to (Antonie Brentano)   Beethoven to his Immortal Beloved

I feel that it is with you that I can do anything at all...Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas

I just miss you, in quite a simple desperate way...Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

Time passes swiftly but it is not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure...Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill 1935

My love has made me selfish...John Keats to Fanny Brawne. 1819

I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again...John Keats to Fanny Brawne

I love you precious with all my heart...George HW Bush to Barbara...during WW2