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Philip Alexius de László, PRBA, RP, NPS (British, 1869-1937)Baroness Conrad von Meyendorff, née Nadine Vladimirnova Louguinine half-length to the left, head turned in three-quarter profile to the right, wearing a black coat with fur collar and black feathered hat, hands raised to a large red corsage at her shoulder, a large ring on the smallest finger of her right handsigned, inscribed and dated 'P.A. de László / Paris 1914. January' (lower left) oil on canvas92 x 75.5cm (36 1/4 x 29 3/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAnon. sale, Castellana, Madrid, 26 February 2001, lot 142.Anon. sale, Castellana, Madrid, 31 May 2001, lot 148.Private Collection.ExhibitedLondon, Christie's, A Brush with Grandeur, loan exhibition, 6-22 January 2004, cat. no. 63.LiteratureSitters' Book I, f. 95: Nadine de Meyendorff / January 1914Owen Rutter, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, p. 282.Duff Hart-Davis, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale, 2010, p. 136.De László regularly travelled to Paris to fulfill commissions and stayed with his friend and patron the Duc de Guiche at 42 avenue Henri Martin, near the Bois de Boulogne. He had use of a studio in the house and during his visit in early 1914 painted the present portrait and one of the sitter's husband Baron Conrad de Meyendorff (inventory number 111504), now untraced. The artist's autobiography notes that he was 'feted everywhere' and his sitters included important figures in Parisian society: Vice-President Jean Dupuy (4479), M. and Mme de Bruyn (110548 & 4822), the Comtesse de Pourtalès (4848) and the Vicomtesse de Fontenay (4468).De László painted a full length portrait of Baroness Meyendorff in 1908 (110711). Her husband was also painted in 1916 in London wearing Russian naval uniform (4842).Nadezhda 'Nadine' Vladimirovna Louguinine was born 18 February 1881, the daughter of Vladimir Feodorovitch Louguinine (1834-1911) and his wife Maria Petrovna Minier. Her father was a scientist in the field of thermodynamics and worked in Paris and St Petersburg. On 1 February 1903 she married Baron Conrad von Meyendorff (1880-1945), an officer in the Russian Navy. There were two sons of the marriage: George (born 1904) and Vladimir (born 1906), both of whom died in a tragic accident in 1924. The family lived at 10 Chesham Street, London from 1911, while Baron Meyendorff served as a diplomatic attaché in the Russian Embassy. Baroness Meyendorff and her husband were intrepid explorers. They spent their honeymoon on the Inca trails in Peru and Bolivia, where Nadine took some two hundred photographs and wrote a diary. These were published as L'Amazonie d'une baronne Russe, Des Andes à l'Atlantique en 1903. She and her husband collaborated on L'Empire du Soleil: Pérou et Bolivie, published in 1909.Nadine was also a courageous and expert mountain climber. The family had a home at Chiètre, Switzerland, and by the time she was eighteen she had completed climbs of the Alpes Vaudoises and the Dents du Midi. In 1925 she became the first woman to reach the peak of Cerro Tolosa (5730m) in the Aconcagua Mountains in Argentina. Nadine died in 1930, aged only forty-nine. Her husband survived her fifteen years and died in Madrid in 1945.We are grateful to Katherine Field for writing the catalogue entry for this lot, which will be included in the Philip de László catalogue raisonné, currently presented in progress online: www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.comThe Hon. Mrs de Laszlo and a team of editors are compiling the catalogue raisonné of the artist's entire oeuvre. Katherine Field is Senior Editor. Please see www.delaszloarchivetrust.com or contact catalogue@delaszlo.com for more information or to offer any contribution.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A .800 cased pocket watch, the enamelled dial with Arabic seconds numerals, Roman hour numerals and Arabic 24 hour numerals to the chapter ring with subsidiary seconds' dial, the back plate inscribed "Ancre Ligne Droite Spiral Breguet 15 Rubis", 4.7 cm diameter with plated outer case CONDITION REPORTS The glass cover is missing, there is a additional glass, but it doesn't appear to fit,, the dial has a section of damage to the enamel between the 7 and 8, as well as surface scratches etc. Replacement hand/s. Unknown if working. Large dent to the case just below the 6 and near the 2, as well as smaller dents thoughout. Wear and tear through out condusive to age and use. The outer case has heavy wear to the plating, discoloured and scratched plastic cover and a dent to the back, as well as wear and tear condusive to age and use. See images for more details.
A 19th Century oak cased long case clock, the eight day movement with white enamelled dial and painted decoration of floral sprays, birds and fruit, the chapter ring with Arabic numerals enclosing a subsidiary seconds' dial and date aperture inscribed "J Parker, Horncastle", 45 cm wide x 22.5 cm deep x 193 cm high (case with alterations) CONDITION REPORTS The dial is approx. 43.5cm high and 31.8cm width.
Antique long case clock in oak case with 10 inch brass dial with pendulum and 2 weights Gilkes Adderbury c.1760 applied Roman numeral chapter ring with lozenge half-hour markers and signed 'Gilkes, Adderbury' to lower edge, the angles applied with female mask cast spandrels, in a rectangular top case with deep ogee cornice and integral pilasters to hood over rectangular trunk door and plain plinth base, approx. 190cm high
A late Regency mahogany bedside pot cupboard, the three-quarter tray top over a single cupboard door, raised on turned and reeded tapered legs with brass castors, 17 x 15½in. (43.2 x 39.5cm.), 30¼in. (76.75cm.) high. *Water, ring and spirit staining to top. Small shrinkage crack to door. Old repair to back right corner. Interior base is broken and part is later.
A collection of silver collectables, comprising a silver and enamel match book container, Henry Matthews, Birmingham 1929; a trowel bookmark, S. J. Rose & Son, Birmingham 1985; two folding M.O.P fruit knives; a coin holder; a pepper; a white metal mounted calling card case; a napkin ring; and a nail buffer, gross weight 6.1 tr.oz. (9)

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