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Landscape study

The Courtyard seen from the Garden at Daws Hill, Home of Lord Carrington 1911

Oil on board, 31.8 x 39.4 cm (12 ½ x 15 ½ in.)

Inscribed lower right: Aug. 7. 1911 P.A. László [black ink incised into paint]

Verso: On a sheet of notepaper from the Lord Great Chamberlain’s Office, S.W.1.:

The Court Yard at / Daws Hill / sketched by by [sic] P.A. de / Lazlo [sic]. when he / was staying at Daws / Hill to paint Lord / Wendover in 1911 / L.

Private Collection

This is one of two landscape studies executed by de László while staying at Daws Hill to paint Viscount Wendover [7718], the only son of Charles Wynn-Carington, Baron Carrington.^[1] Daws Hill was on the Wycombe Abbey Estate near High Wycombe. The artist’s wife Lucy recorded in her diary that de László went to High Wycombe on 2 September 1911, returning on 8th.^[2] De László’s inscription, dating the landscape to August, is therefore misleading, but such mistakes are frequent in the artist’s oeuvre.^[3]

Both the present study and the portrait are mentioned in the Marquess of Lincolnshires’s papers held in the Bodleian Library, in that they were both selected by the fourth of the five elder sisters of the sitter, Lady Victoria Forester, after the death of their mother, the Marchioness of Lincolnshire, in 1934. The second landscape study, also of the garden at Daws Hill [4225], was given by de László to his brother Marczell.

PROVENANCE:
The Marchioness of Lincolnshire;
Lady Victoria Forester;

Major Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, her elder son and godson of the sitter;

By descent to the present owner

SdeL 2008