DLA017-0014 Transcription

FULTHORPE STUDIOS,

3D WARWICK AVENUE.

PADDINGTON, W.2.

Nov 15th [1930]

Dear Mr de Laszlo

Please forgive me for worrying you. I should so like you to see the copy [6850] of the Duke of Northumberland’s portrait [6848] – before submitting it to the Duchess^[1] –

I wonder if you can spare the time to give me a call any time that is convenient to you. I would have mentioned this matter to

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you at the R.B.A. only did not want to bother you knowing how very busy you were – and alas since then I have had a bad attack of bronchitis – but am pleased to say am now much better.

I have tried very hard to make a good copy – and do hope you will like it.

With kindest regards | Yours sincerely,

Sydney P. Kendrick

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.

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[1] De László had painted the original portrait [6848] of Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland (1880-1930), in July 1927. Following the Duke’s untimely death three years later, the Dowager Duchess [6841] commissioned Sydney Kendrick to paint a replica [6850] of it, being “anxious to have his portrait at Albury Park”, see DLA019-0003, letter from the Duchess of Northumberland to de László, 4 September 1930. In a letter of 8th December 1930 to the Duchess, de László wrote, “I am delighted to hear that you are also satisfied with the copy – I thought it perfect”, see Catalogue of Paintings, compiled by the Eighth Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, 1930, no. 436.