Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bam(p)fylde, Countess of Onslow (1883 -1954)
Philip Alexius de László (Budapest 1869 – 1937)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1929 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas in gilt frame.
Measurements
1664 x 991 mm (65 1/2 x 39 in)
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441486
Caption
Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bamfylde (1883-1954), portrayed here in full length gently posed upon a carved wooden chair, married the 5th Earl of Onslow in 1906. During the course of World War I, she was largely responsible for overseeing the transformation and administration of Clandon House as a hospital with some special concern for wounded Commonwealth soldiers, amongst whom Maori troops from New Zealand developed a personal affection for the Hinemihi meeting house within Clandon’s grounds.
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Oil painting on canvas, Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bam(p)fylde, Countess of Onslow (d.1954) by Philip Alexius de László de Lombos (Budapest 1869 – London 1937), signed and dated: de Laszlo 1929 May. A full-length portrait of a woman, seated on a green upholstered carved wood chair, turned slightly to the right, gazing to the left, wearing a black dress and fingering a long slender chain. Wife of the 5th Earl of Onslow whom she married in 1906.
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p 18. Purchased by the Department of Environment in 1975 from the 7th Earl, Transferred to the National Trust in 1977.
Makers and roles
Philip Alexius de László (Budapest 1869 – 1937) , artist