DLA015-0045 Transcription

BEACONSFIELD 7.

WILTON PARK,

BEACONSFIELD,

BUCKS.

May 23d [19]24

Dear Mr Laszlo.

Many thanks for the address – I will write to Mr. Cullen & will try to meet him next week – so as to arrange about the price^[1]

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I am not able to pay very much –

I am looking forward to your Exhibition enormously – & am sure that no picture you ever painted has given as much pleasure

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as the picture you painted for me [6011] –^[2]

I will remember your permission to send in some friends names for the opening day –

Yrs sincerely

Annie Lawley

SMDL

04/12/2017

[1] Frederick Cullen was one of de László’s few authorised copyists. Lady Lawley commissioned a copy of the original portrait by de László of her husband, Sir Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock, from Cullen. For correspondence relating to this copy portrait, see DLA063-0011, letter from Frederick Cullen to de László, 12 July 1924. There exists a second copy of the original portrait, which was painted by Sidney Percy Kendrick and presented to the Zimbabwean Parliament by the British South Africa Company in 1939. For the original portrait, see [6011]. For the Kendrick copy, see [11017].

[2] The exhibition being referred to is The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László, M.V.O., June 1924; [6011] was shown at this exhibition, but it was not included in the exhibition catalogue.