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].