5168

RECTO

Preparatory drawing

John Charles De La Poer Beresford, 7th Marquis of Waterford 1930

Head and shoulders to the right in three quarter profile, a hunt coat and white stock just indicated. Another very small, slight drawing of a violinist in sepia upper right

Blue crayon heightened with chalk, 34.3 x 21.6 cm (13 ½ x 8 ½ in.)

Inscribed upper right: Lord Waterford 

Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 67: Waterford 10th Nov 1930.

Studio Inventory, p. 162 (318): Study of Lord Waterford and / Study of Lady on reverse -

Private Collection

This preparatory drawing was made on 10 November 1930 during Lord Waterford’s first sitting for his portrait in hunting dress [5170]. The artist kept his first idea for the finished portrait, which differs only in the increased detail and inclusion of the sitter’s crossed arms. The portraits of the sitter and his wife [5173] were commissioned to commemorate their marriage in October 1930.

The first version of Lady Waterford’s portrait [5175] was rejected and the finished portrait was not completed until July 1931. De László also painted the sitter’s mother Lady Beatrix Beauclerk in 1922 [5414].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [5170].

Verso is Unidentified: A Lady [112827]

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death;

By descent in his family;

Christie’s, South Kensington, 13 June 1997, lot 83;

Private Collection

KF 2023