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PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)
PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)
PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)
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PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)

Lady Orr-Lewis, née Maude Helen Mary Booth

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PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)
Lady Orr-Lewis, née Maude Helen Mary Booth
signed, inscribed and dated 'de László/1917/VIT.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
with Uno Langmann Gallery, Vancouver.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 8 July 2015, lot 85, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Sitters’ Book II, f. 9: Maude Orr-Lewis, 5 March 1917.
Laib L8555(678) / C15(22) Mrs. Lewis.
N.P.G., 1917-21 album, p. 60.
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Lot Essay


Lady Orr-Lewis signed the artist’s sitters’ book on 5 March 1917, an extremely busy time for the artist as he was painting portraits of officers about to depart for the front or briefly home on leave. A few short months later he would find himself imprisoned as an enemy foreign national, owing to his Hungarian birth.
Maude Helen Mary Booth was born in Montreal, the only daughter of William Booth of London, Ontario. On 18 June 1896 she married businessman Sir Frederick Orr-Lewis, 1st Bt (1860-1921) who was President of the Canadian holdings of Vickers Ltd. and survived the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915. She married secondly, in 1929, James Sinclair Grant-Milne who was later executed as a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
We are grateful to Katherine Field for writing the catalogue entry for this portrait, which will be included in the Philip de László catalogue raisonné, currently presented in progress online: www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com.

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