DLA123-0083 Transcription

ALDERLEY PARK,

CHELFORD, CHESHIRE.

3. May. 1923

My dear de Laszlo

I neglected to answer at once about the sketches you were kind enough to offer me I need hardly say I shall be delighted to have them and thank you very much for your

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kindness.^[1] You are like the lady in the opening of the Arabian Nights who made every King’s [son?] pay duty to her. Not only all the crowned heads of Europe and beyond the seas (but there are a diminishing number) but all the great potentates of the world come to sit in homage to your art.

Yours Sincerely

Sheffield

Editorial Note:

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley, 3rd Baron Eddisbury and 4th Baron Sheffield (1839-1925); English peer. For biographical notes, see [12808].

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[1] De László made a number of preparatory works and studies [112258][7287][2761][2986] for a three-quarter length portrait of Lord Sheffield painted in 1904 [12808]. De László also kept what is likely a copy of the official portrait, cut down and with a plain background [2759]. He painted Lord Sheffield again in 1919 in gratitude for all his support during his internment [2065].