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Preparatory work

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury 1904

Seated at a table three-quarter length to the right, his head turned to the left, wearing a dark suit and waistcoat, a white shirt and red tie, his left hand on a book on the table beside him, a letter in his right hand resting on his thigh

Oil on board, 70.5 x 55.8 cm (28 x 19 ¾ in.)

Sitters’ Book I, f. 68: Stanley of Alderley

Studio Inventory, p. 36 (185): Lord Stanley of Alderley

Private Collection

The present portrait is a preparatory study for the three-quarter length formal portrait of Lord Stanley which de László submitted to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1905 but was rejected. That portrait remains untraced [12808].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [12808].

PROVENANCE:          

In the possession of the artist on his death;

By descent in his family;

Sold at Christie’s South Kensington, 13 June 1997, lot 69

LITERATURE:

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale University Press, 2010, p. 89

CC 2008