ARTIST PRINCESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 8

ARTIST PRINCESS

1 BAILIFFS IN HOME. Princess Lwoff Parlaghy, who had been lying ill and penniless amidst the costly furnishings of her home in New York, died recently. The house is in the possession of the bailiffs for a writ of seizure for Mortgages totalling £218,000 dollars for loans made by Mr. Ludwig Nissen, a diamond merchant now in Europe. The Princess, who was born in Hungary, had a dispute some years ago with an hotel concerning her hotel bill, and when she left her possessions, including paintings, bionics tapestries etc. were worth something like 100,000 dollars. She was a very good painter, one of her “sitters” being the ex-Kaiser seated in a Medici chair. Since the outbreak

of the war her income dwindled until when the end came she was penniless. Among the prominent people she painted were August Belmont, Seth Low, Hudson, Maxim, Whitelaw Reid, Edwin Markham, Nicola, Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Choate, Chauncey Depew, Myron T. Herrick, and General Horace Porter. Her staff included a confessor, always dressed in clerical robes, a staff of secretaries, couriers, maids, coachmen, coiffeurs, chefs, butlers and doctors. The Duke of Manchester once got , into the same lift at an hotel she was

staying at, and she told him that he could not ascend until after she had done so. There was a stormy scene between them.