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Princess Shows Tesla Portrait
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Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy Holds Reception at New Studio and Gives Private View of Inventor's Portrait.
Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, portrait painter, has a new studio at No. 109 East Thirty-ninth street, and yesterday afternoon and evening she opened it and showed her portrait of Mr. Nikola Tesla. It was the first reception she has held since she and her animal pets and her many servants, in Russian costume, spectacularly quitted the Plaza Hotel last year.
Mr. Tesla was present, and the more than two hundred persons who called viewed a most lifelike portrait of the inventor, who is shown seated, and with an absence of anything resembling pose. It is the first time that Mr. Tesla has been painted. Other portraits painted by Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, lent for the occasions, were those of Messrs. Andrew Carnegie, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hudson Maxim, Chauncey M. Depew. Seth Low. Robert W. de Forest, John Quincy Adams...
