拍品 153
拍品 153
PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)

Portrait of Mrs William Wickham Hoffman, née Katherine Miller

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PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)

Portrait of Mrs William Wickham Hoffman, née Katherine Miller

成交價 GBP 47,880
成交價 GBP 47,880
詳情
PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937)
Portrait of Mrs William Wickham Hoffman, née Katherine Miller
signed, inscribed and dated ‘de László/1932 May LONDON’ (lower left)
oil on board
3534 x 2734 in. (90.8 x 70.5 cm.)
來源
The sitter, and by descent in the family until
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 July 2019, lot 104, where purchased by the present owner.
出版
Laib L17399(484) / C12(31): Mrs. Hoffman.
Sitters’ Book II, f. 73: Katherine W. Hoffman, 11 May 1932.
P. de László, Diary: 1933-1934, Private Collection, 10 January 1934 entry, pp. 72-3; 25 January 1934 entry, p. 88; 18 February 1934 entry, p. 112.
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拍品專文

This portrait was painted in London in 1932. During his fifth and last visit to the United States in late 1933 and early 1934 de László recorded in his diary that he dined with the sitter and her husband and saw the portrait in their home. He also mentioned that he 'corrected Mrs. Hoffman’s portrait,' something he rarely did once he had completed and signed a portrait.
Katherine Chace Miller was born 7 March 1894, the daughter of Dr George Norton Miller (1857-1935) and Martha Le Roy Glover (1864-1941). Her parents were art connoisseurs who acquired works by many significant American artists such as Childe Hassam. Their city residence at 811 Madison Avenue, New York city, and their country estate in Rhinebeck, New York held many fine ancestral family portraits painted by Thomas Sully and Gilbert Stuart. She joined the American Red Cross as a nurse after the death of her brother, U.S. Army Lt. George Norton Miller III, during the First World War. Towards the end of the war she was stationed in Southampton, England.
On 6 March 1922 she married William Wickham Hoffman (1880-1966), son of Mr and Mrs Francis Burrall Hoffman, who after the First World War, served as military attaché at the American legation in Brussels. Katharine Hoffman was an amateur artist and painted throughout her life, primarily landscapes and interiors of her houses. During her travels to Europe she acquired works of art and built a small but important collection of French Impressionists and American Realist painters, particularly George Bellows. She was widowed in 1966 and devoted herself to philanthropy until her death in 1977 at her Carlyle House residence.
We are grateful to Katherine Field for writing the catalogue entry for this portrait, which will be included in the Philip de László catalogue raisonné, currently presented in progress online: www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com

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