DLA017-0120 Transcription

80, WARWICK GARDENS,

KENSINGTON, W.14.

9. 5. [19]30

Dear Mr de Laszlo,

Confirming your instructions I will send for the picture tomorrow morning^[1] My wife & I greatly enjoyed the wonderful singing yesterday afternoon, – We trust you will have an enjoyable trip to Paris.

I am very happy that things are happening at the R.B.A.; the first exhibition under your Presidency looks like being a notable one!^[2]

With very kind regards to Mrs de Laszlo & yourself. – from both of us.

Sincerely yours.

JH Amshewitz

Editorial Note:

John Henry Amshewitz (1882-1942), British artist; fellow member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA)

SMDL

18/01/2018

[1] Possibly a reference to an unrecorded copy made by Amshewitz after a de László portrait; see DLA017-0121, letter from John Henry Amshewitz to de László, 22 June 1930, in which Amshewitz writes: “I shall be only too pleased to take your suggestions with regard to the copy & to do what I can to improve it”.

[2] In a meeting held on 26th February 1930, de László was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in succession to Walter Sickert (1860-1942).