DLA014-0003 Transcription

“THE STUDIO”

A MAGAZINE OF FINE & APPLIED ART

44, LEICESTER SQUARE,

LONDON, W.C.

10th August 1917

Dear Mr. de László,

I have not been at the office for some days and hence your letter of Aug 1. has only just come into my hands. We shall be sending you in a day or two a copy of the number containing a reproduction of your portrait of Countess Curzon [3015].^[1]

I am interested to learn that you are about to paint Mr Balfour’s portrait for Eton.^[2]

I look forward to seeing the result and hope it may be as great a success as the Lord Roberts [6924].

With kind regards | Very sincerely yours

Charles Holme

SMDL

27/11/2017

[1] [3015] was reproduced in The Studio Magazine, vol. LXXI, London, 1917, pp. 117-119, ill. [The International Studio, September 1917]

[2] Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), who was educated at Eton. For additional references to this intended portrait for Eton, see DLA121-0002, letter from de László to Colonel Knightley Stalker Dunsterville, 25 July 1917; and DLA123-0132, letter from Lord Balfour to de László, 14 August 1917.