112576

DESTROYED

REJECTED

Mrs Arthur Graham Glasgow, née Margaret Branch 1910

Standing three-quarter length turned slightly right and full face to the viewer, her left arm resting on a column and her right at her side, wearing a light coloured gown with dark chiffon stole round her arms

Oil on canvas, 188 x 109.2 cm (74 x 43 in.)

Sitters’ Book I, f. 84: Margaret Glasgow. March 7th 1910

Studio Inventory, p. 86 (466): Mr de Laszlo painted several poses of Mrs. Glasgow. / Re-stretched 1938.

Mrs Glasgow attended her first sitting on 7 March at de László’s studio at West House on Campden Hill. There are three preparatory studies recorded in the artist’s Studio Inventory, showing the sitter standing [112390], seated [112414] and a head and shoulder study [112389].

The artist’s wife Lucy de László, recorded in her diary that he began a new composition on 13 May and the present portrait is the rejected picture. The artist would put aside a canvas when he was unhappy with it and start again, something he was able to do as his technical facility gave such speed of execution. The finished portrait is full length rather than, as here,  three-quarter length.  

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [5353].

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death;

Destroyed in accordance with the terms of the artist’s will

LITERATURE:

•László, Lucy de, 1910 diary, private collection

KF 2023