Self-portrait (Philip Alexius de Laszlo)
1925

Painted and given to the Portlands in 1925.

Philip Alexius de Laszlo
British portrait painter, 1869-1937


Philip de Laszlo was born in Budapest in 1869,  he studied at Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz in Budapest, then went to Munich. He lived in Budapest and Vienna until 1907, when he finally moved to London. He became a British citizen in 1914. De Laszlo died in London in 1937.

He made a great reputation as a painter of the aristocracy and royalty on 'the Continent' in the 1890's and early 1900's. He settled in England in 1907 and was considered by many to be the natural successor of Sargent, especially as Sargent began to withdraw from portrait-painting, and de Laszlo's commissions grew. He was quite a prolific painter.

I'm not sure if de Laszlo knew Sargent, but surely they were brought into contact with one another in the art world.  I think one way of to tie them together is through the critics' agreement or disagreement that he was the natural successor to Sargent, as well as the fact that they did have some sitters in common - for example, Theodore Roosevelt, The Earl of Wemyss and March, Field Marshall Earl Roberts, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Arthur Balfour, Margot Asquith, Mrs. Grace Elvina Duggan (later painted by Sargent when she was Marchioness Curzon of Kedelston), Lady Wernher, Lady Louis Mountbatten (nee Edwina Ashley - Sargent drew her portrait in charcoal as a child, and Laszlo painted her as a bride in 1922 and two years later as well)."


Articles BY de Laszlo

The Art of Our Day, by Philip A. de László, Journal of the Roal Society of Arts; August 7, 1936


Articles on de Laszlo
 

Exhibitions

'Laszlo: A Brush with Grandeur
January 6-22, 2004
Christie's London

'The Guardian' has  an article about de Laszlo and the  impending exhibit.

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Sampling of Works by de Laszlo


In the Hofbrauhaus in Munich
1892


Ignác Wechselmann
1894

Comte and Comtesse Jean de Castellane
1899


Pope Leo XIII
1900

Duke of and Duchess de Gramont
1902


Elisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre 
(nee de Gramont)
1902


Corisade de Gramont
1902
(daughter of Agenor and Marguerite)


Louis Rene, Comte de Gramont
1902
(Son of Agénor, Married Elaine Greffulhe in 1904)


Armand Antoine XII
1904
XIIth Duke of Gramont
(Son of Agénor, Married Elaine Greffulhe)


Elizabeth, Comtesse Greffuhle, (nee Caraman-Chimay)
wife of Comte Henry Greffuhle
1905


Elaine Greffuhle
1905


Comte Robert de Montesquiou
1905


Princess Louise of Battenberg 1907
1907


Princess Andrew of Greece 
(Alice of Battenberg)
1907


Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary
1907


Count Albert Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein
before 1907

Emperor and Empress of Germany
1908


Gen. Julian George Hedworth Byng
(later First Viscount Byng of Vimy)
1908


The Earl of Wemyss and March
(Black and white image)
1908 


Most. Rev. Joseph Ferguson Peacocke
Archbishop of Dublin
1908
Pencil drawing


Theodore Roosevelt
1908

(1967) Copy after 
by Adrian Lamb, after Philip de Laszlo's


Margot Asquith
1909

Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm by Philip de Laszlo
H.I.H. The Emperor of Germany
(Black and white image)
1910


The Bubble Blowers 
(Stephen and Paul de Laszlo)
1910


Miss Elizabeth Guinness
(Black and white image)
1910


President Theodore Roosevelt
(Black and white image)
1910


Duchess of Portland
1911
Chalk drawing


Viscountess Northcliffe
(Black and white image)
1911


Admiral Togo
(Black and white image)
1911


Elinor Glyn
1912
Oil

Duke of Portland
1912

Duches of Portland 
1912


Lord Morven Dallas Cavendish-Bentinck
1912
(son of Duke and Duchess of Portland)


Armand, Duc de Gramont
1912


Mr. Austen Chamberlain
1913


Vicomtesse de Fontenay
1913


 La Contessa Anna de Noailles
c. 1913?


Viscountess Castlereagh
(Preparatory Sketch)
1913


Sketch of a Lady
(Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon)
1913


Mary Frances Dundas McEwen
1913 / 1914


Marquess of Titchfield
1914
(another son of Duke and Duchess of Portland)


Sir Luke Fildes
1914


Charles de Gramont
1914


Madame H. Letellier
1915


James Robert Dundas McEwen
1915


Ivy Gordon-Lennox
1915
(Married Marquess of Titchfield)


Portrait of a Lady
(the Hon. Ivy Gordon-Lennox (1887-1982))

1915


Lady Victoria Cavendish-Bentinck
1916
(daughter of Duke and Duchess of Portland)


Lady Maude Orr-Lewis
1917


Sir George Henschel
1917


Sir William Pulteney Pulteney (1861-1941)
1917


Diane Chamberlain
1917


Johnny (de Laszlo, the artist's son)
1919?


First drawing Lesson
1919


The Young Artist 
(a portrait of his son, Johnny de Laszlo)
1919


Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927)
1920


Emir Faisal Ibn ul Hussein
1920


Queen of Spain
1920


Marquise de Castellane
c. 1920?


Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927)
1921


Francis Patrick Garvan (1875-1937; American)
1921
(Thumbnail only)


Florence Kling Harding
1921


Antoinette Comtesse de Gramont
1921
(wife of Louis Rene, Comte de Gramont)


Baronness Robert de Rothschild
1922


Vera, Lady Broughton
1922


Countess of Airlie
1923 ?


Lady Louis Mountbatten
1924


Queen Marie of Roumania
1924


Sir Robert Gresley, Eleventh Baronet
1924

Lady Frances Gresley
1924


 Lord Louis Mountbatten
1925


Duchess of York 
(nee Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 
later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother)
1925


Joannes Gennadius
1925


Ailsa Mellon Bruce
1926


Leonidas Paul Lambrinudi
circa 1926 ?


President Calvin Coolidge
c. 1923-1929 


Randall Davidson
Archbishop of Canterbury
1926


King Alfonso XIII of Spain
1927

Queen of Spain
1927


 

Elinor Glyn
1927


Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928)
1928


Elizabeth Parke Firestone
(Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.)
1928


Marguerite
1928
(daughter to Louis and Antoinette de Gramont)


Philippe
1928
(son to Louis and Antoinette de Gramont)


Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
1929


Mrs. Charles Alexander Munn
(nee Mary Astor Paul)
1929


Comtesse Georges de Castellane
1930


Count Apponyi
1930

Duke and Duchess of York
1931
Oil
(later King George VI,  r. 1936-1952)


Portrait Sketch of H.M. The Queen Mother 
when duchess of York 1931
1931


Andrew W. Mellon 
1931


The Hon. Mrs. Philip Leyland Kindersley
(née Oonagh Guinness)
1931


First Lady, Lou Henry Hover, 
wife of president Herbert Hoover, 
copy by Richard M. Brown
1932


Cosmo Gordon Lang
Archbishop of Canterbury
from 1928-1942
1932


Duke of Portland
1932


Princess Elizabeth of York
Currently Queen Elizabeth II of England
1933


Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
1933


Miss Anny Ahlers
1933


Mr. N. L. Cappel 
1933


Princess Marina Sketch
1934

Duke and Duchess of Kent
1934


Sir (William Matthew) Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)
1934


William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)
1934


Jane Clarkson
1936


Queen Marie of Roumania
née Princess Marie of Edinburgh
1936


H.M. Queen Marie, the Queen Mother of Roumania
(née Princess Marie of Edinburgh)
1936


Duchess of Northumberland
1937


Two Sons of Lord Brocket
Date?


Stephen de László
Date?
(The Artist’s Son)


Paul Leonardo de László
date?
(The Artist’s Son)
 
 


Madame Olga Edwards
Date?


Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour  


Mrs. Lucy de Laszlo
Date?


Auguste Victoria,
Queen of Portugal in Exile

Date?


Prince Louis II of Monaco and Princess Charlotte of Monaco (his daughter)
Date?


Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain (Left),  her mother, Princess Beatrice of Great Britain (aka Princess Henry of Battenburg) (right)
Date?






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