DLA117-0043  Transcription

43, OLD BOND STREET.

LONDON, W.1.

21st. February, 1917.

Dear De Laszlo,

Thanks for your letter. I have written to Mr. Orr-Lewis^[1] to say the price of his wife’s Portrait [1900] will be six hundred guineas, and the Kit-Kat Portrait of the Child [4670] three hundred and fifty guineas. I do not want Mrs. Orr-Lewis painted the size of Mr. Morgan [3909]. It is too big – paint her 50 by 40.

There is one thing I should like – I should like you to inform Mrs. Orr-Lewis in your own nice way, that I do not take commissions on this kind of Portrait. I fancy her husband is a little bit suspicious, so you put him right. His address is 109 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, W

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I enclose you a letter from Mr. Oswald Sanderson,^[2] one of the best fellows in the world, whose Portrait I want you to paint [7082], and I want you to keep yourself free for Friday week for lunch, and then come and lunch with me at the Ritz. Don’t stand on any dignity about this point, but come, because Oswald Sanderson is a ripper and a first-class subject for a Portrait. You will be delighted with him, and I want you to do it.

All good wishes to you,

Yours sincerely,

Lockett Agnew.

P.A. Laszlo de Lombos Esq. M.V.O.

3 Palace Gate,

W.

Editorial Note:

(William) Lockett Agnew (1858–1918), British art dealer; for biographical details, see [2560]. 

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23/06/2024