DLA017-0057 Transcription

BRICKWALL,

SEDLESCOMBE,

BATTLE, SUSSEX.

26 Jan. 1930

My dear de Laszlo,

Many thanks for your letter – in which we are both so sorry to read of your anxiety with regard to your son’s illness, & sincerely hope that by now he is regaining his strength.

I was glad to receive the General’s charming letter which must have crossed one I wrote him, a copy of

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which I will show you when we meet.^[1]

We propose coming to town for 2 or 3 days on Wednesday next the 29th & shall look forward to lunching with you either on the 30th or following day & arrange then about removing the picture in the case;^[2] I will telephone early Thursday morning to see which days suits you best –

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Glad to hear you have been doing some interesting work in Paris –

My wife joins in kindest regards to you both.

Yours very sincerely,

Edward Patry.

Editorial Note:

Edward Patry (1856-1940), British artist, one of de László’s authorised copyists and a fellow member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA); for further biographical details, see [10407].

SMDL

11/01/2018

[1] Possibly Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston (1864-1940), whose portrait Patry had painted [5711] after an as-yet untraced portrait by de László.

[2] Possibly a reference to de László’s portrait of Alfred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough (1857-1945) [7122], which, according to the artist, he was finishing in early January (see DLA019-0033, letter from de László to Sigmund Munz, 2 January 1930) and which Patry made a copy of [10407].