Nattie would marry Harold Roller and the both had visited Sargent when John's father was ill  according to Charteris (Charteris p. 99). She is also referred to in Sargent's letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1889, but there she is referred to as Miss Huxley, so she probably married Harold Roller later (see letter). Anyway, Charles Merrill...

Dennis Miller Bunker was a young American painter from Boston. He had first met Sargent in Boston the winter of '87-'88 through Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, a patron of both Sargent and the young Bunker. In the Summer, Bunker plans to visited Sargent at Calcot and writes to Mrs Gardner:  June 25, 1888 I expect to be off in the country in a...

Norah Royds (1859-1923) married George James Gribble (of London) on July 27, 1881. Seven years later, when she was about twenty-nine, Sargent painted her. They would have six children: i. Phyllis   ii. Norah le Grand   iii. Lesley   iv. Barbara   v. Philip le Grand 1891-   vi. Julian Royds, VC 1897-19 Norah survive, but...

When John painted him, Henschel was directing the London Symphony Concerts and was very much apart of that circle of artist in London. From: Morrison Foundation.org Sir George (Isidor Georg) Henschel (b. Feb. 18, 1850; d. Sept. 10, 1934), was a celebrated singer, composer and conductor. He entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1867 and studied...