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Philipo Alexius de Laszlo (1869-1937)
- Preparatory sketch of Viscountess Castlereagh, later Marchioness of Londonderry

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Philipo Alexius de Laszlo (1869-1937)
Preparatory sketch of Viscountess Castlereagh, later Marchioness of Londonderry
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £19,120
  • ($34,359)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £700 - £900
  • ($1,258 - $1,617)

Sale Information

Sale 9931
20TH CENTURY BRITISH ART
14 October 2004
London, South Kensington





Lot Description

Philipo Alexius de Laszlo (1869-1937)
Preparatory sketch of Viscountess Castlereagh, later Marchioness of Londonderry
oil on board
29 x 20¼ in. (73.7 x 51.4 cm.)

Special Notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
This lot is subject to Collection and Storage charges

Provenance

The artist's estate.
London, Christie's, 13 June 1997, lot 60.

Literature

G.Rowcliffe & Co., Will Trust. Inventory of Portraits, Pictures, Studies, Sketches, Drawings etc. by Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, M.V.O., London, 1938, p.38, no. 198.
O.Rutter, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, p.277.

Lot Notes

Lady Castlereagh and the artist co-operated together in the design of the formal portrait, for which this is a sketch. The finished painting was to be hung in the big portrait gallery in Londonderry House on Park Lane, London, among their collection of Gainsborough, Reynolds and Lawrence pictures. There exists another preparatory sketch of the sitter standing full length in a room at Londonderry House, which remains in the collection of a descendant of the artist's brother, Marczi László. The sitter was also drawn by John Singer Sargent in 1913.
The Viscountess Castlereagh, later Marchioness of Londonderry, wife of the 7th Marquess, née The Hon. Edith Chaplin, D.B.E., J.P., was born in 1878, the eldest daughter of 1t Viscount Chaplin. She married Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, later 7th Marquess of Londonderry, in November 1899. She was the most distinguished political hostess of her day, an early and influential supporter of women's suffrage, and a brilliant gardener, creating the Mount Stewart gardens in Co. Down, now owned by the National Trust. She died in 1959.

We are grateful to Sandra de Laszlo for her assitance in cataloguing this work.