The Teslian - Vol. I, No. 8 Page 1

TESLA PORTRAIT BY PRINCESS LWOFF-PARLAGHY NOW IS MISSING

Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy was born at Hadjn Dorog, Hungary. As a child she showed an aptitude for music and painting, but soon realized the latter was her true vocation. At 14 she was taken to Munich, called a genius, and the great master Lenbach welcomed her as his pupil. Distinguished personages sat for her in ensuing years, such as Emperors of Russia and Germany; Kings of England, Denmark, Belgium, Wuerttemburg, Serbia, Bulgaria; the Shah and Grand Vizier of Persia; Queens of Rumania and Italy; Clemenceau, Bismarck, Moltke.

Her American portraits included Burroughs, Carnegie, Chandler, Choate, De Forest, Depew, Edison, Goethals, Seth Low, Lowell, Markham, Osborn Parker, Reid, Roosevelt, Sigsbee, Tesla, Wilson.

On March 1, 1916, the Princess gave a reception at her new studio at 109 E, 39th Street in New York City especially to exhibit her latest portrait of Nikola Tesla. An article in the New York Times for March 2, 1916, stated:

"It was one of the beliefs of Mr. Tesla that there was some- thing unlucky about posing for a picture and he never sat to any before he entered the studio of the Princess. The room which