Queen Victoria Eugenia
Queen Victoria Eugenia c1912 by Hungarian Painter Philip de László (1869 – 1937); bekend om syn portretten fan keninklikens en aristokraten.
This is a beautiful and elegant idealized portrait of Queen Victoria Eugenia (1887 – 1969) done when she was 25 jier âld, who was the Queen of Spain from 1906 nei 1931.
She was a Hessian Princess by birth; and a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt of Germany.
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László waard berne yn beskieden omstannichheden yn Boedapest as Fülöp Laub, de âldste soan fan Adolf en Johanna Laub, in skroar en naaister fan joadske komôf. Fülöp en syn jongere broer Marczi feroare har efternamme yn László yn 1891.
Op jonge leeftyd, Philip gie yn 'e lear by in fotograaf wylst hy keunst studearre, en úteinlik fertsjinne in pleatsing oan de National Academy of Art, dêr't er studearre ûnder Bertalan Székely en Károly Lotz; en soe letter syn stúdzje yn München en Parys trochgean.
Yn 1900 László visited the Vatican and met with the aging Pope Leo XIII and during that year painted a portrait of Pope Leo XIII which was exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition, earning him a Grand Gold Medal.
Yn 1903, László moved from Budapest to Vienna; dan yn 1907, he moved to England and remained in London for the remainder of his life; although traveling extensively throughout the world to fulfill commissions.
Yn 1909, László was invested MVO by Edward VII, en yn 1912, he was ennobled by King Franz Joseph of Hungary; his surname then became “László de Lombos”, but he soon was using the name “de László”.