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 | Helen Sears 1912 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
Sargent had
painted her as a little girl 17 years previous:
Helen Sears
1895
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
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 | Hell (West Wall, North lunette) 1916 Boston Public Library Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge 1890 |
Lodge began
his career in Congress in 1887, armed with all the confidence that his
distinguished New England ancestry, Harvard education, and wide circle of
influential friends could bestow. A power in the Senate and in the Republican
Party, he was noted for his scorn of the alliance between big business and
corrupt politicians. Close friends... | GA | igrkio |
 | Henry G. Marquand 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Henry G
Marquand, was second president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting
was done in Sargent's London studio in the summer of 1897 and was commissioned
by the Trustees of the Met. Henry was seventy-eight when this was done. Sargent
had painted his wife in 1887 which was Sargent's first portrait commission
within the United... | GA | igrkio |
 | Henry James Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Henry James
(1843-1916), an expatriate American writer who settled in England and
eventually became an British citizen.
He is considered by most to be one of the great english literary writers
and among his best known works is The Ambassadors.
James lived
for a period in Paris but hated it and finally found his home in London and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Henry James (charcoal) 1913 Royal Library at Windsor Castle Windsor, UK |
Henry James
1913
Oil
Sargent
presented this charcoal portrait to King George V in 1916, two weeks after
James's death (James died in July). James had been given The Order of Merit by
King Edward VII previously, and this drawing has since been kept with a
collection of other honorees.
The Order
was founded by King Edward... | GA | igrkio |
 | Henry Lee Higginson 1903 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Henry Tonks 1918 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
Henry Tonks (1862-1937) studied medicine and became a doctor at
the Royal Free Hospital in London. Tonks also
attended drawing lessons at the London Technical Institute where he met the
artist Frederick Brown. When Brown became principal of Slade Art School, he
convinced Tonks to give up medicine and become one of
its teachers. He joined the New... | GA | igrkio |
 | Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1893 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Painted for
Hercules himself by Sargent. Not sure if this was a gift or if Hercules
commissioned it. Some seven years later he would paint him again which Sargent
kept for his own collection.
Hercules Brabazon
1900
Note:
Dated by Charles
Merrill Mount
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John... | GA | igrkio |
 | Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1) 1900 National Museums & Galleries of Wales Cardiff, UK |
Hercules Brabazon
1893
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906) was an
Irish/English watercolorist who came to it professionally at a late age --
though he had been a gentleman artist for many years previously. He held his first
one-man exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1892 at the age of 71 quickly
became a sensation with... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
