ROYAL VISITORS TO STUDIO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

ROYAL VISITORS TO STUDIO.

Seldom has an artist been so honoured as M. Amsliewitz, the South African painter, to whose studio three ladies of the Royal Family have paid visits recently. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was the first Royal visitor, arriving quite alone, and taking tea informally in the studio M. Amshewitz has had built in the garden of his house. It was in South Africa that M. Amshewitz's work came to the notice of Princess Alice. Several of this artist's pictures hang in Princess Alice's private apartments at Kensington Palace, and it was there that the Queen saw a picture which prompted Her Majesty to make a morning call at the studio the following day. Dressed in a simple gown of beige, with a toque to match, and no coat on account of the heat, the Queen examined all the pictures and heard how Prince George had acquired one. Going back along the orange and black passage leading to the studio, the Queen expressed a wish to see furniture and china figurines in Sirs. Amsliewitz's dining room, and complimented the wife of the artist upon an old "arhioire." It is, of course, seldom that the Queen pays such a visit to a private house. Her visit was closely followed by one from the Duchess of Argyll.