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Still Life

Roses in the Garden at Burton Hall 1905

Roses in the garden at Burton Hall, pink tightly-frilled blooms against a green background indicating a lawn and a dark shrubbery

Oil on board, 38.5 x 31 cm (15 ¾ x 12 ¼ in.)

Inscribed lower left: Burton Hall / 905 / LFE [iincised into paint]

Private Collection

De László and his wife Lucy were living in Vienna at the time the present work was painted, but made frequent visits to the Guinness family home of Burton Hall in Stillorgan, on the outskirts of Dublin. It was in the late summer of 1905 that the artist made this study of the roses in the garden there.

During the same visit the artist painted two pictures of a close family friend, Miss Gerard Little. The first with a yellow rose at her breast [6062], and another in a double portrait with Lucy’s sister Eva [6060]. He also made a portrait drawing of Lucy’s niece, Cassie Falls [5038].^[1] 

De László also completed the prize-winning portrait of Lucy with a violin [6765] that was “awarded the large gold medal at Venice, 1907 […] and bought by the Italian Government 1907 at the International Exhibition at Venice, for the Modern Art Gallery at Rome.”^[2] The artist recorded on the back of that portrait that it was painted ‘at Burton in Summer 1905’ and it is inscribed as being painted in September that year.  

PROVENANCE:        

Amy Henrietta Wills-Sandford-Wills, sister-in-law of the artist;

By descent in the family

SdeL & SMdeL 2013