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Mary Elizabeth Willard, later The Honourable Mrs. Mervyn Herbert 1917

Half-length in profile to the left, three-quarter face to the viewer, wearing a white chiffon wrap around her shoulders, a pale green and yellow shot silk stole over it and a turquoise bead necklace

Oil on canvas, 82.9 x 58.5 cm (32 ⅝  x 23 in.)

Inscribed lower left: László / 1917. I. LONDON.

Laib L8324(428) / C28(7)  

NPG Album 1912-16, p.31, where labelled: Miss M.E. Willard / U.S.A. / 1917.

Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 9: Mary Elizabeth Willard / Jan. 1917.

Studio Inventory, p. 11 (65): Head and Shoulders of a Lady, Fair hair, green beads and a white and green wrap.

Private Collection

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