11459

Genre picture

The Deerstalkers at Knoydart, home of the Bowlby Family 1916 

Oil on panel, 15.2 x 25.4 cm (6 x 10 in.)

Inscribed lower right: P. A. de László / Knoydart. 1916. Oct

NPG 1912-16 Album, p. 47: My Gillies during my last / stalking at Knoydart - / 1916.

Private Collection

De László visited Knoydart in October 1915, when he made four landscape studies of Loch Nevis and the surrounding mountainous terrain [3630][4307][3625][112672]. He also made a portrait drawing of Catherine Bowlby [2505], wife of the estate’s owner Arthur Bowlby [2885], and a head and shoulders oil portrait of their son David [13702].  

The present picture was painted during a visit the next year, the last the artist made before his internment in 1917 and the sale of the estate by the Bowlby family in 1930.^[1] It was purchased by the Brocket family and de László included the landscape in the background of Lady Brocket’s portrait in 1936 [3616].

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death

EXHIBITED:

Christie’s, King Street, London, A Brush with Grandeur, 6-22 January 

2004. no. 68, ill.

LITERATURE:

Clifford, Derek, The Paintings of P. A. de László, London, 1969, ill. pl. 33 

Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale University Press, 2010, p. 125, ill. 74

•Hart-Davis, Duff, László Fülöp élete és festészete [Philip de László's Life and Painting], Corvina, Budapest, 2019, ill. 95

KF 2022