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Study portrait

Mrs Alfred Chester Beatty, née Edith Dunn 1916

Bust-length to the left, head turned and looking to the right, wearing drop pearl earrings and a pearl necklace, a dark chiffon stole just indicated around her shoulders

Oil on board, 70.5 x 53.4 cm (27 ¾ x 21 in.)

Inscribed lower right: László / 1916. Oct. 19.

NPG Album 1912-1916, f. 27, where labelled Mrs Beatty / U.S.A. / “painted this portrait for the artist Ben. Just.”

Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 8: Edith Beatty Oct. 19th 1916.

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland

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