Bibliography

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ, 1869-1937

Primary sources

S.B.: The Artist’s Sitters’ Book, in two volumes: used by de László both as a studio visitors’ book and as a sitters’ book. The first signature, in 1899, was of the Emperor Franz Joseph, King of Hungary, who signed in the Royal Palace in Budapest, and the last the Duke of Connaught. De László left these books to the British Museum on his death. They were transferred to the British Library, where they now remain in the Department of Manuscripts: Document Numbers: 45. 095 and 45. 096. Translation made by Dr. Edward W. Hanson of the Massachusetts Historical Society, completed c.1998, and updated with new information from records compiled in the catalogue raisonné office.

NPG Album: The National Portrait Gallery (London) albums: de László made an unique record of his work (but not complete or perfectly chronological) which was deposited with the National Portrait Gallery, London after his death. There are 19 clothbound albums with photographs pasted in and the name of each sitter written (mostly by the artist) on each page. The majority of the photographs are by Paul Laib. There is no printed word at all in these volumes.Studio Inventory: Gregory Rowcliffe & Co. Will Trust, Inventory of Portraits, Pictures, Studies, Sketches, Drawings etc. by Philip Alexius László de Lombos, M.V.O. etc, London, 1938. After the artist’s death his solicitors Gregory Rowcliffe & Co. went to great lengths to record some 1255 of the paintings and drawings that remained in the artist’s studio and home. As far as it is known five books, typed and copied with original thumbnail photographs, were made, one for each of the sons of the artist.


Secondary sources (arranged chronologically)

Montesquiou, 1906: Montesquiou, Robert (de), « Un Portraitiste Lyrique, Philip László », in Art et Artistes, Paris, No.15, Juin 1906

Schleinitz, 1913: Schleinitz, O. (von), Künstler-Monographien Vol.106: Ph. A. von László, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld und Leipzig, 1913, in German, 147 illustrations

Modern Painting, 1921: Modern Painting II. “The Work of P.A. de László, M.V.O.”, Foreword by A.L. Baldry, The Studio Limited, London, 1921

Williams, 1921: Williams, Oakley ed., Selections from The Work of P.A. de László, Foreword by Robert de Montesquiou, Hutchinson, London, 1921, Limited Edition of 300 copies. 64 illustrations & in deluxe edition, 69 (64 monochrome, 5 colour)

Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (n.d., listing those deceased between 1930 and 1939). Author of entry: Herbert Borthwick Grimsditch

Painting a Portrait, 1934: Holme, C.G. ed., Painting a Portrait by de László, in How To Do It Series No.6, Introduction by A.L. Baldry, The Studio, 1934, 22 illustrations of his technique, 11 of portraits by other artists.

Rutter, 1939: Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter - The Authorised Life of P.A. de László, Hodder & Stoughton, St. Paul’s House, London E.C.4, 1939, 16 illustrations

Clifford, 1969: Clifford, Derek, The Paintings of P.A. de Laszlo , Literary Services & Production Ltd., London, 1969, 16 colour illustrations, 46 monochrome

Badea-Paun, Dr. Gabriel, “Les Portraits de la famille royale Roumaine par Philip de László”, in Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art, série Beaux-Arts, tomes XXXIX-XL, Bucharest, 2002-2003, pp.101-122

Millar, Oliver, The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, The Victorian Pictures, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp.xxv, lii (introduction) & pp.157-8, short biography

Kinchin, Juliet, “An Artist at Home, Philip de László” in Budapest and London , Britain & Hungary, Contacts in Architecture & Design during the 19th and 20th Century, Essays & Studies. Ed. Gyula Ernyey, Hungarian University of Craft & Design, Budapest 1999

A Brush with Grandeur, 2004: Laszlo, Sandra (de) ed., & Christopher Wentworth-Stanley, asst. ed., A Brush with Grandeur, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2004

Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Author of Entry: Robin Gibson

Grever, Tonko and Annemieke Heuft (Sandra de Laszlo, British ed.). De László in Holland: Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2006.