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A Brush With Grandeur: Philip Alexius de Laszlo (1869-1937)
A Brush With Grandeur Philip Alexius de Laszlo - 1869-1937 Author:Sandra De Laszlo, Suzanne Bailey, Gabor Bellak, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Ormond, Christopher Wood Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937), following a meteoric rise to recognition in his native Hungary, settled in Britain in 1907 and became the leading portrait painter in the country, taking over from Sargent. He is known especially as a portraitist of beautiful women, but his male portraits (including those of four U.S. Presidents) are very forceful a... more »nd his talent was universal, including landscape, animal subjects and children, and drawings and sketches as well as oil paintings. This book, accompanying the first retrospective exhibition of de Laszlo since his death, illustrates a rich and representative selection of his work, drawn from a range of private collections, and re-introduces this well-known but little studied artist to a wider public. Its distinguished contributors include Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen?s Pictures; Gábor Bellák, curator of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings at the Hungarian National Gallery; Richard Ormond, formerly director of the National Maritime Museum; and Christopher Wood, well known for his books on nineteenth-century art. The catalogue entries, by Sandra de Laszlo, contain fascinating biographical as well as art historical information.« less