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Lisa Minghetti and Philip Alexius de László
Thursday 13th September 2018
This photo is of Lisa Minghetti as painted by Philip Alexius de László
A beautiful young woman and one of László's best known portraits. Lisa must have loved it, using a photo of the painting to sign autographs for her admirers
This photo is signed by Minghetti "To Dear George" and dated 1936. The following year the BBC reported "Only twenty-four years of age, Lisa Minghetti has already had a brilliant career. Her main studies were at the Akademie fur Musik in Vienna, her native city, where she studied under Jacques Thibaud and Carl Flesch. Since then she has appeared in almost every important musical centre in Europe. In London last year she played Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, in G minor, at a Promenade Concert. This is Lisa Minghetti's third appearance at Alexandra Palace. Viewers will recall that she gave a recital last November and another on February 4"