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UNTRACED

Study portrait

Lady Dorothie Moore, née Lady Dorothie Feilding 1917

Head and shoulders, head turned in three-quarter profile to the left, wearing a green bandeau in her dark hair which is worn up, a yellow dress or shawl just indicated round her shoulders

Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 45.7 cm (27 x 18 in.)

Inscribed lower left: To Lady Dorothe [sic] / 1917 July 28 / PA de László

Laib L8592(353) / C17(18A)  Lady Moore [sic]

NPG Album 1917-21, p. 29

Sitters’ Book II, f. 10: Dorothie Feilding June 21st/17

De László was commissioned by the sitter’s father to paint a pair of formal portraits of the sitter [1946] and her fiancée Captain Charles Moore [6362] in June 1917. Their wedding took place 5 July and the artist made this study portrait soon after as his personal wedding present to the bride.  

Lady Dorothie wrote to the artist to thank him: “only a little line to thank you by letter as well as de vive voix for your charming wedding present. I think it is too nice of you, especially to have given me a sketch in colour. I shall value it very much indeed.”^[1]

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [1946].

LITERATURE:

DLA020-0277, letter from the sitter to de László, 4 August 1917  

KF 2017