CANTACUZENE,
PSS HELENE
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No: (GL) 8407
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Size: 15"x12"
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Date: NONE
Sitter:
Princess Helene Cantacuzene ( ).
Biog:
Daughter of Roumanian Prince Leon Cantacuzene and sister of Prince Gregoire
Lwovitch Cantacuzene, Councellor at the Embassy, London.
"Of course I knew Helene Cantacuzino, married to Constantin Donici.
She was a very agreeable person, very cultivated and full of fantasy.
She died at 80 in Puciora, a small town not far from Targoviste. She
had become a very popular and able teacher of English and French to
children and students whom she pulled through their classes up to university.
The local authorities had a great respect for her and she was always
provided with excellent food. I used to come for the weekend in Puciora
where she had passed through great difficulties until she started using
her knowledge of foreign languages." [Princess Ileana Sturdza]
Date:
[9 June 1920]
Occasion:
Publicity photograph prior to presentation at Court, 10 June 1920.
Location:
The Lafayette Studio, 160 New Bond St., London, W.
Descr:
HL seated
Costume:
-
Photographer:
Lafayette Ltd., 160 New Bond Street, London.
Evidence
of photographer at work: -
No
of poses: 3.
Copyright:
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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References:
Biog:
Marquis of Ruvigny, The Titled Nobility of Europe, London, 1914;
Princess Ileana Sturdza, private note to John Wimbles
Occasion:
The Times, 12 June 1920, p 18e; The Gentlewoman, 26
June 1920, p 965.
Costume:
-
Reproduced:
(version) The Gentlewoman, 26 June 1920, p 965.
Additional
Information: -
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