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Drawing

H’ Wang, Lady Wantage’s Pekingese 1911

Pencil on paper [a page of a visitors’ book], 26 x 19.7 cm (10 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.)

Inscribed upper right: H’ Wang

The Loyd Collection

De László was a regular guest of Lady Wantage at Lockinge and made this study of her Pekingese during his stay 10-15 September 1915.  The name H’Wang may be a playful ‘orientalisation’ of the sitter’s own, Harriet Wantage. The artist also completed a study portrait of his hostess [11384], and two of her other guests, Lady Jane Lindsay [13475] and Lady Susan Townley [7360].

The artist’s second son Stephen and his wife Diana also possessed a Peking

ese, named Chinky [11036], who features in several portraits of Lucy in the late 1930’s [11750] [8180] [3334].

PROVENANCE:

The Loyd Collection

LITERATURE:

•Field, Katherine ed., Transcribed by Susan de Laszlo, The Diaries of Lucy de László Volume I: (1890-1913), de Laszlo Archive Trust, 2019, p. 192, ill.

•László, Lucy de, 1911 diary, private collection

KF 2014