DLA006-0013  Transcription 

76, ELM PARK ROAD,

CHELSEA, S.W.

Thursday

My dear Wirgman,

I am only just returned from the country & hasten to enclose you a notice of sending-in-day for Laszlo. There is a Council Meeting this afternoon & I will lay your letter before it. Should the Council decide to invite the picture you mention

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Lindsay will notify him. Meantime perhaps you will kindly forward enclosed as I don’t know his address

Much regard to Mrs Wirgman & yourself. | Yours

Hugh Glazebrook

Editorial Notes:

The sender, Hugh de Twenebrooks Glazebrook, was a portrait and landscape painter. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1891. The recipient, Theodore Blake Wirgman, was a painter and etcher. Wirgman made his reputation as a portrait painter, exhibiting works throughout his career at the Royal Academy. He produced monochrome portraits of eminent men for The Graphic and worked for Sir John Everett Millais and the Duke and Duchess of York, amongst others. De László painted Wirgman’s portrait in December 1909, inscribing it, ‘To my friend Wirgman’ [11445].

SMDL

07/10/2017