2768

Study portrait

Lady Sheffield,^[1] née Mary Katharine Bell 1919

Head and shoulders to the right, full face, wearing a high-necked white blouse with a brooch at the neck and drop earrings

Oil on board, 53.4 x 50.8 cm (21 x 20 in.)

Inscribed lower left: M.K. Stanley / of Alderley [in the sitter’s hand]

Sitter’s Book II, f. 12: Dec 6 1919 Maisie Sheffield Alderley Park.

Studio Inventory, p. 39 (203): Lady (M.K.) Stanley of Alderley

Private Collection

A portrait of the sitter wearing the uniform of a Red Cross nurse [2767] was painted in 1919 and it is thought that the present portrait was executed around that time, though the sitter’s hair appears to be darker in the present painting. The first portrait de László made of Lady Sheffield was in 1904 [3870], and there exists a further portrait in oil painted in 1924 [2770].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [2767].

PROVENANCE:          

In the possession of the artist on his death

CC 2008