DLA107-0216 Transcription

The French Gallery,

120 Pall Mall.

London, S.W.1.

Wallis & Son.

HARRY WALLIS.

19th November 1924.

Dear Sir,

We thank you for your postcard of yesterday’s date, and beg to inform you that the Foreign Office were unable to send the Queen of Roumania’s portrait [3200] to Bucarest by King’s Messenger. The Infanta Beatrice^[1] then got into touch with the Roumanian Legation with a view to its being taken out by one of their attachés, but no opportunity has yet occurred, and the portrait is still waiting at the Roumanian Legation. We shall be informed directly the picture is to be taken to Bucarest.

Regarding the reproductions of the portrait, three copies of these, framed, were taken to Bucarest some weeks ago by Prince Nicholas,^[2] and we are now completing an order for twenty of them to be sent to the Infanta Beatrice before Christmas. We will let you know when these are ready, as we presume you will be desirous of signing them.

In confirmation of our telephone conversation with Mrs. de Laszlo,^[3] we quoted the sum of twelve hundred guineas for a three-quarter length portrait to Sir Charles Markham,^[4] who did not come to the Gallery, but rang us up on the telephone.

We are, dear Sir,

Yours faithfully,

Wallis & Son.

P. A. de Laszlo, Esq.,

3, Fitzjohn’s Avenue,

N.W.3.

SMDL

20/03/2023

[1] Possibly Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Duchess of Galliera, née Princess Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884–1966), daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; granddaughter of Queen Victoria; wife of Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, Duke of Galliera (1886–1975)

[2] Prince Nicholas of Romania, later known as Prince Nicholas of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1903–1978), fourth child and second son of King Ferdinand I of Romania and Queen Marie; great-grandson of Queen Victoria

[3] Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness (1870–1950) [11474], the artist’s wife

[4] Sir Charles Markham, 2nd Baronet (1899–1952); see de László’s 1925 portrait of Lady Markham, née Miss Glwadys Beckett, later Lady Delamere (1898–1943) [4730]