DLA019-0065 Transcription

FULTHORPE STUDIOS,

3D WARWICK AVENUE,

PADDINGTON, W.2.

March 21st

Dear Mr de Laszlo

I have had an interview with Miss Preston – and am doing a sketch to submit to her tomorrow Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock – before she leaves London for the West Indies – which I hope will please her –^[1]

My fee was not mentioned & I wondered if you had suggested to her what my fee might be – She wants a ¾ length portrait. Would you kindly advise me on this matter.^[2]

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and please forgive me bothering you.

With kindest regards & again very many thanks for your kind recommendation

Yours sincerely,

Sydney P. Kendrick

[The following in de László’s hand, inverted] please [illegible words] Kendrick [illegible] [suggest?] for ¾ length. [between?] 3 – 400. £

Editorial Note:

Sydney Percy Kendrick (1874-1955), British artist. Kendrick was one of de László’s favoured official copyists; exhibited at the Royal Academy as a painter of genre and landscape paintings.

SMDL

30/05/2018

[1] Kendrick writes a few days later that the sketch he did for the posthumous portrait of Miss Preston’s sister, Zelia Krumbhaar Hoffman, née Preston (1867-1929), “met with great approval”, see DLA017-0019, letter from Sydney Percy Kendrick to de László, 24 March [no year]. Also see related archive item DLA017-0017, letter from Sydney Percy Kendrick to de László, 12 August [no year].

[2] The agreed upon fee was 300 guineas, see DLA017-0019, op. cit.