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 | Garden Study of the Vickers Children 1884 Flint Institute of Arts Flint, MI | 
Carnation Lily Lily Rose
1885-86
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
Forum
From:
Sarah Wickham
(sa rah. wick ham@rncm.ac.uk)
Date: 6/8/2004
I'm the
archivist at Royal... | GA | igrkio |
 | Gassed 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
Dulce et Decorum est
Bent
double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed,
coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the
haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards
our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched
asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped
on, blood-shod. All went lame, all... | GA | igrkio |
 | General Charles J. Paine 1904 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
General
Charles Paine, was a three time defender of the America's Cup races: 1885 with
the yacht "Puritan"; '86 with "Mayflower" and finally in
'87 with the boat "Volunteer" -- so named for Paine's division of
black volunteers he commanded during the the civil war.
After
graduating from Harvard, with the war underway, he joined the army and... | GA | igrkio |
 | General Lucius Fairchild 1887 State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison, WI |
Quite a remarkable man. He was a three term Wisconsin Governor (1866-72); A
decorated civil war hero at Gettysburg were he
was severely wounded during the famous Pickett's charge and had his arm
amputated, was subsequently taken prisoner and eventually paroled. He then was
commissioned brigadier-general. After his term as governor he went on to... | GA | igrkio |
 | General Officers of the Great War 1922 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
1 William
Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
(1865-1951), Field Marshal
2 Jan
Christian Smuts (1870-1950), Field Marshal and South Arfican
Statesman
3 Louis
Botha... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Frederick McCorquodale 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
George
Frederick McCorquodale (1853-1936) wearing a black velvet coat.
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 430.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts,... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Henschel Oil on canvas Private Collection Unknown, USA |
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... | GA | igrkio |
 | George McCulloch 1901 Boston Athenaeum Boston, MA |
George
McCulloch (1848-1907) made his fortune in silver mining in Australia before
coming to London to live as a gentleman of leisure and art collector. He was
friends with many of the Royal Academy and had, by the time of his death,
amassed an amazing collection of contemporary work numbering more than 400 with
more than half of those considered... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Nathaniel, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1914 Royal Geographical Society London, UK |
From: Kris Radford
(rad ford k@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003
Grace Elvina
1925
(second wife to
George Nathaniel)
George
Nathaniel Curzon, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 -1925) was born
January 11th, at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, he was an administrator,
politician, and explorer. As an administrator,... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Robert White 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
From: Boston University Alumni Page
Date: Spring 2002
By Peter Vandermark
[George
Robert White was a] lifelong bachelor, who lived with his sister on
Commonwealth Avenue, amassed a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry. He had
come to the city as a poor boy to work in the Potter Drug and Chemical Company,
which he... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
