Grace Elvina Hinds, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1877-1958)
Philip Alexius de László de Lombos (Budapest 1869 – London 1937)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1916 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
794 x 635 mm (31 ¼ x 25 in)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 108923
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Grace Elvina Hinds, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1877-1958) by Philip Alexius de László de Lombos (Budapest 1869 – London 1937), signed and dated lower right: P.A. de Lászlo / LONDON. 1916 III 14. A half-length portrait of Grace Elvina Hinds, turned to the left, gazing to the left, wearing the habit of a nursing order. Painted just before the sitter's marriage to Lord Curzon in 1917. She was his second wife and was also American, the daughter of a former Unites States Minister in Brazil and widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires.
Provenance
Recorded as originally in the Curzon’s house in Carlton House Terrace; owned by the sitter by whom bequeathed to Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale (1898-1977); bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
P de Lazlo LONDON 1916 (artist's signature, painted, bottom rhs of canvas, black paint)
Makers and roles
Philip Alexius de László de Lombos (Budapest 1869 – London 1937), artist