DLA003-0025 Transcription
6, CHESTER TERRACE,
CHESTER SQUARE,
S.W.
Sunday
[The following notes in another hand]
Heads – 500 Guineas
¾ - 800
Full - 1000
Can paint her in the Autumn only
Dear Mr. Laszlo
I saw Lady Fitzwilliam[1] Saturday afternoon and she is very anxious to know if you cld kindly paint her and her little Baby boy,[2] wld you write please direct to her
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to 4 Grosvenor Square. She wld be so grateful if you wld kindly tell her if you can do this, and tell her other arrangements as to sitting & & &
It was a great pleasure
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seeing you and Mrs. László at lunch here and very kind of you to come.
Yrs sincerely
W Ward Cook
GG
11/07/2006
[1] Countess Fitzwilliam, née Lady Maud Dundas (1877-1967). De László painted Countess Fitzwilliam in 1911 [5188].
[2] Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton before 1943 (1910-1948). De László painted Viscount Milton on two occasions, aged two [5190], in 1912, and again in 1933 [5192], when the artist also painted the Viscount’s fiancée, Olive Plunket [5195].