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"Expectancy": A Portrait of Frances Winifred Hill

c.1895
Oil on canvas
40.25 x 34 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Backwater at Calcot

1888
Oil on canvas
25 x 29 3/4 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Backwater at Wargrave

1887
Oil on canvas
74.93 x 62.23 cm (29.5 x 24.5 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Backwater Calcot Mill near Reading

1888
Oil on canvas
51.3 x 68.6 cm (20 3/16 x27 in.)

Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore, MD

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A Bedouin Arab

c. 1891
Oil on canvas
66 x 51.4 cm (26 x 20 1/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Boating Party

1889
Oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 36 3/8 in.

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A Country Road in Winter

1892
Oil
25.2 x 30 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Charles Merrill Mount dated this painting and thinks it probably was done at Fairford Note: Sold at Christie's New York 11/29/2000; Lot 51; $415,000
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A Game of Bowls

C 1889
Oil on canvas
142.9 x 229.2 cm (56 1/4 x 90 1/4 in.)

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY

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A Garden in Corfu

c 1909
Oil
22 x 28 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Note: Offered but not sold Christie's; 5/26/1994; Lot 92; estimated $400,00-$600,000 Date estimated by Natasha  Forum From: Stan g ra    nt4art@cableone.net Date: Apr 12, 2006 Hi  Natasha- . . .What prompts me to write is that I think I found an oil piece of Mr. Sargents that you list as watercolor. The "A Garden in Corfu"....
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A Gust of Wind

1886-87
Oil on canvas
61.6 x 38.1 cm (24.25 x 15 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
The woman featured in A Gust of Wind is Judith Gautier who wrote a favourable article on Madame X. Reportedly she was a mistress of the composer Richard Wagner. Melle Judith Gautier à la Fourberie 1883-1885 Judith Gautier 1885 Notes: Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New...
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A Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil
177.8 x 81.3 cm (70 x 32 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes:  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Bibliography: Mount, Charles Merrill, "John Singer Sargent: a biography," London: Cresset Press, 1957. Catalogue    JSS: 20055 SIRIS IAP: 81710128 CMM: K8911
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A Javanese Girl at Her Toilet

1889
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 in.

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A Lady

1880
Oil on wood panel
35.60 x 27.90 cm (14 x 11 in.)

notes
Notes Special thanks to Colleen Kollar Zorn, with A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings LLC,  of Seattle, Washington USA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending along a better image. Forum "A Lady" 1880 Sold by a Museum?  From: B cca  esq@aol.com  Date: 10/10/99 I was wondering whether you could direct me to more information on John...
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A Landscape Study at San Vigilio, Lake of Garda

1913
Oil on canvas
88.9 x 114.3cm (35 x 45 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
San Vilgilio is a small fishing village at the southern end of Lake Garda. The painting is of the hills just outside the village.  Note: Offered but not sold Sothebys; 5/24/2001; Lot 25; estimated $300,000 - $400,000  Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition of Works by the late John S. Sargent, R.A., 1926
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A Man Seated by a Stream, Val d'Aosta, Purtud

c 1907
Watercolor
35.6 x 50.8 cm. (12 x 14 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Note: Sold Sothebys; 12/3/1998; Lot 15; $200,500 Exhibited:   New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Paintings by the Late John Singer Sargent, 1925, no. 33
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A Marble Fountain at Aranjuez

1912
Oil on Canvas
55.90 x 71.10 cm (22.01 x 27.99 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Sold Sotheby's; 12/1/1994; Lot 33; $343,500
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A Morning Walk

1888
Oil on canvas
67 x 50..2 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/4 in.)

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A Mosque, Cairo

1891
Oil on canvas
44.45 x 66.04 cm (17.5 in x 26 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Mosque, Cairo 1891

1891
Oil on canvas
14.1 x 18.7 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Note (The Libreria, Venice)

c. 1902-08
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
35.6 x 51 cm

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A Nude Boy on a Beach

1878
Oil on wood
26.8 x 35.1 cm

notes
From: Tate Gallery After the success of his 'Oyster Gatherers of Cancale' at the 1878 Paris Salon, Sargent went to Naples and Capri for part of the summer. Two of the oil sketches he made there, this one and another in the collection of the Ormond family, were later used in a very direct fashion for the painting 'Boys on a Beach, Naples',...
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A Palace and Gardens, Spain

1912
Watercolor on paper
46 x 30.8 cm. (18 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From Christie's Lot Notes   In Sargent's A Palace and Gardens, Spain, the artist chooses to paint a Baroque facade seen from a distance across a formal garden. The work is freely sketched, as if the artist sought to capture a fleeting image of sunlight. On the left, he paints leaves with staccato strokes of green and a hedge with a broader...
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A Parisian Begger Girl

1877-1878
Oil
25.2 x 17.7 In.

The Terra Foundation for American Art

Chicago, IL

notes
By ‘79 Sargent begins his major portraits and he never particularly showed any desire to paint scenes of Parisian life, opting for more exotic locals for his subject paintings, this was probably done when he was studying with Carolus-Duran's atelier. From: Stephanie at john singer sargent's exotics  Date: 7/10/00 According to Richard...
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A Portrait of Violet

1889
Oil on canvas
59.69 x 38.1 cm (23.5 x 15 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Possibly it was Violet again that inspired Sargent sketch below: Woman Sketch Date? Violet  1881  Notes: Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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A Road in the South

1884
Oil on Canvas
46.0 x 32.5 cm (18.1 x 12.8 in)

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A Rose Trellis (Roses at Oxfordshire)

c.1886
Oil on canvas
27 x 17 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Siesta

1907
Watercolor on paper
40.6 x 53.3 cm (16 x 21 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Spanish Barracks

c.1901
Watercolor and pencil on paper
30.2 by 45.4 cm (11 7/8 by 17 7/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Sothebys A letter from David McKibbin dated September 1966 (from the Library of the Boston Athenaeum) to Mr. Fraad notes, "Your Spanish Barracks which was given to Dr. Playfair in 1906 was I think painted in 1903 when Sargent was at Santiago de Compostela, for the scene is the Hospital Real there, where a whole series of soldiers...
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A Spanish Interior

1903
Watercolor on paper
57.15 x 45.72 cm (22.5 x 18 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Spanish Woman (Gigia)

1879
Oil
22 x 18 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Street in Algiers

1880
Oil on panel
13.5 x 10 in

notes
Although the title of the painting refers to Algiers, most sources believe the painting was actually done in Morocco at Tangier.  In 1880 Sargent and his party of friends traveled from Spain to Morocco (and what is vaguely referred to as "North Africa") for about six weeks. His exact itenery during this time, from what I can tell, is...
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A Street in Arras

1918
Watercolour
39 x 52 cm

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

notes
Arras  1918 From: Art of the First World War During his stay in France in the summer of 1918, Sargent travelled all over the Picardy and Artois regions. In Arras, he painted the ruins of the cathedral and collapsed houses like this one. A shell has burst through the wall, revealing an old horse-drawn carriage. The floor...
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A Street in Venice

c. 1880-82
Oil on canvas
75.1 x 52.4 cm (29 9/16 x 20 5/8 )

notes
Venetian Alleys and Passageways (Photos) The textured walls and the lighted opening at the end, lends itself well to this great composition of perspective and depth -- a city which seems to be made for such studies -- a city rich in interesting viscosity and corridors. Notes: Exhibitions Sargent in Italy, 2002-2003
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A Street in Venice c. 1882

c. 1882
Oil on canvas
45.7 x 54.6 cm (18 x 21 1/2 in)

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A Summer Idyll

c. 1877
Oil on canvas
41.3 x 71.7 cm (16 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.) Frame: 48.3 x 57.2 x 8.3 cm (19 x 22 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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A Tent in the Rockies

1916
Watercolor on paper
39.2 x 53.2 cm

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA

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A Torrent in Norway

1901
Oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 29 3/4 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Note:  Spanierman Gallery does not date the work. It, however, falls in line with other work done in Norway in 1901. Sold at Spanierman Gallery date unknown
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A Tramp

After 1900
Watercolor on paper
50 x 33.5 cm (19 11/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 See the The Brooklyn Museum, NY See the year in review 1908 Forum: . . . a consumate work of portrait art: the excellent handling of an unforgiving medium combined with the compassionate portrayal of this world weary man...
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A Tyrolese Crucifux

1914
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 71.8 cm (36 x 28 1/4 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Note: Literature W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, pp. 247-48. E. Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 293. C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent, London, 1957, p. 361. C.M. Mount, "The Works of John Singer Sargent in Washington," Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,...
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A Venetian Interior

1880-82
Oil on canvas
48.4 x 60.8.3 cm (19 1/16 x 23 15/16 in.)

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Williamstown, MA

notes
Venetian Bead Stringers 1880/1882 Another version of this scene is done in Venetian Bead Stringers: Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004 See the year in...
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A Venetian Woman in a Scarlet Shawl ("Gigia Viani")

1880
Oil on canvas
34.29 x 26.67 cm., actual

notes
A full length portrait of Gigia Viani was painted in 1882: Italian Girl with Fan 1882 Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922) American painter Gigia Viani 1880 Notes:  Bibliography Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York and London, 1970), p. 29 John Singer Sargent,...
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A Waterfall

c. 1910
Oil on canvas
113.03 x 72.39 cm (44.5 x 28.5 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Wrecked Sugar Refinery

1918
Watercolor and graphite
13 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

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A. (Recto) Amos with Staff and Rope

1890-1895
Charcoal on paper
61 x 48.2 cm (24 x 19 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Aaron Augustus Healy

1907
Oil on canvas
86.5 x 73 cm (34 1/16 x 28 3/4 in)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
A. Augustus Healy was president of the Brooklyn Institute for 25 years during a very formative time in its development. The Insitute was the forerunner of the Brooklyn Museum. McKim, White and Mead, Architects  The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of of Arts and Sciences, now known as the Brooklyn Museum of Art. 1893  ...
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell

1923
Oil on canvas
140.6 x 98.5 cm (actual)

Harvard University Art Museums, Portrait Collection

Cambridge, MA

notes
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence 1920 Notes: Bibliography: "Annals of America", Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. XIV Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits, A Catalogue of Portrait Painting at Harvard University, Harvard University Press, 1936, p. 90 Harvard Business School Bulletin, "Four Men and a Foundation", June,...
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Above Lake Garda

1913
Watercolor
13.7 x 21 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Abries

1912
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
53 x 40 cm (20 7/8 x 15 3/4 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Acheson Sisters

1902
Oil on canvas
269.2 x 198 cm (106 x 78 in.)

Devonshire Collection

Chatsworth, UK

notes
From: 'Society Portraits 1850 - 1939' [1] The Ladies Alexandra, Mary and Theodosia Acheson were the three daughters of the fourth Earl of Gosford. They married respectively The Hon. Frederic William Stanley, The Hon. Robert Arthur Ward and The Hon. Alexander George Codogan. The history of how the present portrait came to be commissioned is not...
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Ada Rehan

1894-1895
Oil on canvas
53.7 x 43.2 cm (20 x 16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
Ada Rehan, 1860-1916 an Irish born American actress. Her name was actually Ada Crehan, but took the stage name of Ada Rehan after being once mistakenly billed as such.  She was popular in comedy roles in New York theater, and played the leading woman of the Augustin Daly Stock Company with more than 200 different roles. She join John Drew's...
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Albanian Olive Pickers at Work

1909
Oil on canvas
94 x 113 cm (37 x 44 1/2 in.)

Manchester City Art Galleries

Manchester, UK

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Albert de Belleroche

c. 1882
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 49.5 cm (27 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)

notes
Albert de Belleroche (half portrait) c. 1882 Notes:  Special thanks to Malcolm Armstrong, of New York City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me the link to this image.
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Albert de Belleroche (half portrait)

c. 1882
Oil on canvas
61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Albert de Belleroche (1864-1944) was a fellow art student in Carolus-Duran's studio. He joined the atelier in '82 at the age of eighteen making him the Freshman to the Upper Classman Sargent who was twenty-six. The dedication to "baby Milbank" is actually the senior Sargent affectionately/teasingly nodding to the new kid --  "Milbank" being...
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Alberto Falchetti

c. 1905-08
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 54.6 cm (29 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Thume

notes
From: B & Cheri  Falchetti  w i do@alltel.net Date:  Thursday, March 18, 2004 Alberto Falchetti (Born 1878- died-1956 - or there about) is the son of Giuseppe Falchetti (b1843-died in Torino 1918) both from Caluso, Italy. From my understanding Alberto studied with the masters. But I have no confirmation of that. Even though his...
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Alfred son of Asher Wertheimer

1901
Oil on canvas
163 x 115 cm

notes
Forum:  Subject: Alfred son of Asher is significant and personal  From: raven schultz   Date: 07 Feb 2001 boy oh boy.... well, i first saw this painting life size and in the flesh at the seattle art museum and completely fell IN LOVE with it.  have you ever seen this one?  well, it's significance to me is personal.  it reminds me...
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Alhambra, Patio De La Reja

1879
Oil on canvas
47.94 x 54.61 cm (18.88 x 21.5 in.)

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Alice Meynell (nee Thompson)

1894
Pencil
362 x 210 cm (14 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Alice Runnels James

1921
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite
53.5 x 34.3 cm (21 1/16 x 13 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Note Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Alice Vanderbilt Shepard

1888
Oil on canvas
76.52 x 55.88 cm (30 1/8 x 22 in.)

notes
The painting was exhibited at the The World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893 along with eight other portraits. This portrait was unique -- not entirely -- but among many. Sargent had asked Alice's parents for permission to paint her, he wasn't asked. John had been executing a commission for her father, the lawyer and newspaper...
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Alice, Marchioness of Salisbury

1923
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Matt Davies  <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>  Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2002 Here is another grouping of several family members.  These are three sisters:  the first being Mabell, Countess of Airlie (1923), the second being Alice, Marchioness of Salisbury, and the third being Esther, Viscountess Hambleden. All three of these are...
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All' Ave Maria

c.1907
Watercolor on paper
24.77 x 30.08 cm (9.75 x 13.81)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Alligators

1917
Watercolor, graphite and wax crayon white wove paper
40.1 x 53.2 cm (15 13/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Alma Strettell (or "Stretell")

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
66 x 54.6 (6 x 21 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Alma Strettell, later Alma Strettell Harrison 1856-1939    Poet and writer, she was intensly interested in folk music and wrote or co-wrote:  Spanish and Italian Folk-Songs; London, 1887 Legends from River and Mountain; Carmen Sylva (H. M. Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell, Illustrated by T. H. Robinson, George Allen, London, 1896,...
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Almina Daughter of Asher Wertheimer

1908
Oil on canvas
134 x 101 cm

notes
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption  (05-Sep-2001) This painting was the last in the series of Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family. Almina was Asher Wertheimer’s fifth daughter. She is shown in an exotic, ‘oriental’ costume, including an ivory-white Persian dress and a turban entwined with pearls. The white and...
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Alpine Pool

c. 1907
Oil on canvas
69.9 x 96.5 cm (27 1/2 x 38 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
From: "Lynnrd" <Ly nn  rds@home.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 I saw [Alpine Pool on tour] today (here in San Diego, CA) and purchased the Exhibit book for American Impressionists Abroad and at Home. The photo in the book does a complete injustice to the painting. I would like to see a photo on the web that truly brings out the richness....
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An American Portrait Unnamed

Undated
Unknown size

notes
I am searching for the identity of this sitter -- if you know please write. I received an interested e-mail [in 1999]. Graham Dugas (gd ug  as@bigfoot.com) apparently had this painting and wanted to know its value and how to sell it. I directed him as best I could. He had very little information and was seeking the identity of the sitter. If...
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An Artist at His Easel

1914
Watercolor over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
40 x 53.4 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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An Artist in His Studio

1904
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 72.07 cm (22 1/8 x 28 3/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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An Egyptian Woman

Oil on canvas
64.8 x 53.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
Notes:     Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, for taking this picture at the Met (2002) and being a friend of the JSS Gallery.  See some of Andy Holzopfel paintings. Possibly No. 915 or 916 on Charles Merrill Mount list
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An Interior in Venice

1898
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 78.7 cm (25 x 31 in.)

Royal Academy of Arts

London, UK

notes
This is of the interior Ballroom of Palazzo Barbaro, on the Grand Canal in Venice (photo left). It is where Sargent stayed with the Curtises' (Ralph Curtis and his parents) when he was there.  Mrs. Ralph Curtis 1898 The younger man on the left in the background is Ralph Curtis, the younger woman with him is his newlywed wife....
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Angela Mackail

1915
Charcoal on paper
Unknown size

Private collection: Simon MacInnes

Unknown

notes
From: angelathirkell.org ANGELA [MACKAIL] THIRKELL (1890 - 1961) Angela Margaret Mackail was born on January 30, 1890 at 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, London. Her grandfather was Sir Edward Burne-Jones the pre-Raphaelite painter and partner in the design firm of Morris and Company for whom he designed many stained glass windows - seven of...
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Angels, after a relief, Church of Los Jeronimos, Granada

1893-1916
Watercolor and graphite on heavy wove watercolor paper
43.1 cm. x 32.1 cm., actual

notes
From: Harvard Clear wax used as a resist to produce white highlights. The subject of this watercolor has been identified by Mary Crawford Volk (unpublished letter in the drawing department's curatorial files,16 July 1990) as a relief panel in the 16th-century "retablo" of the Church of Los Jer—nimos in Granada. According to the diary entry of...
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Anthony Asquith

c. 1908
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Anthony Asquith "Puffin" (1902-1968), youngest son of Herbert Henry and Margot Asquith, Count and Countess of Oxford. His father was the British Prime Minister and he grew up in 10 Downing Street from when he was six years old to fifteen (1908-1916). To the dismay of his political father, however, he didn’t take after his half siblings who...
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Antonio Mancini

c.1898
Oil on canvas
67 x 50.5 cm (26 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)

Galleria Nazional d'Arte Moderna

Rome, Italy

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Apollo

1921-1925
Charcoal on paper
48 x 63.5 cm (18 7/8 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Apollo (2)

1921-1925
Charcoal and graphite pencil on paper
48.5 x 62.5 cm (19 1/8 x 24 5/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Apollo (Study for Apollo and Daphne)

c. 1918-20
Charcoal on off-white paper
42.5 x 53.4 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Apollo and the Muses

1921
Oil on canvas
283.21 x 428.62 cm (111 1/2 x 168 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Apollo is the god of light, the patron of music and fine arts. Often in his attendance are the muses. Earlier numbers were unclear but the Greeks finally established nine muses in mythology: 1.       Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry 2.       Clio, the Muse of history 3.       Polyhymnia, the Muse of...
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Arab Gypsies in a Tent

1905-06
Watercolor heightened with white on paper
30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Arab Stable

1905-06
Watercolor on paper
27.64 x 36.53 cm (10.88 x 14.38 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Arab Street Scene

c. 1880
Oil on panel
10.25 x 14.25 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Arab Woman

1905-1906
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Architectural Sketch of the Reform Club, London

possibly 1884
Graphite on off-white wove paper
17.2 x 10.9 cm., actual

notes
The Reform Club in London was started around the time of the Reform Bill (1830- 32). The members consisted of the Liberal members of the two Houses of Parliament and some distinguished members of the public. The club, itself was (and still is) located on the Pall Mall, between the Travellers' Club and the Canton Club. The building was built from...
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Architecture, Painting and Sculpture Protected by Athena from the Ravages of Time

1921
Oil on canvas
320.36 x 261.3 cm (126 1/8 x 102 7/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Athena is many things, but above all, she is the Goddess of the City and the protectress of civilized life -- of artesian activities such as Architecture, Painting and Sculpture. She is the favorite daughter of Zeus and born miraculously from his head with her helmut already on. Notes: Special thanks to Lee Sandstead of New York, for being...
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Arras

1918
Unknown size

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Arthur Balfour

1908
Oil on canvas
100 in approx by ?

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

notes
From: Artfund Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (Tory Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905). Balfour was one of the pivotal figures in British politics from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. In 1879, he made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of Philosophic Doubt and was the most admired of the group of young,...
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Arthur, Duke of Connaught

1908
Oil on canvas
Unknown size

The Royal Collection

Berkshire , UK

notes
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a the 3rd son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1874. Duke and Duchess...
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Artillery on the March

1918
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Asher Wertheimer

1898
Oil on canvas
147.3 x 97.8 cm

notes
Asher Wertheimer (Sketch) c. 1898 Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Asher Wertheimer (1)

c. 1898
Graphite on off-white wove paper
24 cm x 15.1 cm, actual

notes
Asher Wertheimer c. 1898 Notes: Bibliography David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 130, Check List of Sargent's Portraits Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York and London, 1970), p. 248 Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent (New York,...
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Astronomy

1921
Oil on canvas
94.61 x 107.31 cm (37 1/4 x 42 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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At Broadway

1885
Oil
18.5 x 24 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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At Pompeii

Undated
Watercolor
9.75 x 13.75 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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At Siena: a Cow and Calf in a Stall

1910
Watercolor
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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At the Forge

1911
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
I don't know the history of this drawing, but get a load of this: Sargent's friend, Edwin Austin Abbey was commissioned to do some murals for the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before he could finish these, Edwin, in 1911, grew deathly sick. Sargent, at the time, was in Munich when he received word from Edwin's wife. John...
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At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden

1910
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 91.4 cm (28 x 36 in.)

Royal Academy of Arts

London, UK

notes
From: Royal Acadeny This view was painted at the Villa Torre Galli, near Lucca where Sargent stayed in 1910 with friends who included the artists Sir William Blake Richmond, Wilfrid and Jane de Glehn. The Villa, which was owned by the marchese Farinola, features in several of Sargent's works. Its colonnaded loggia opened onto a picturesque...
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Auguste Rodin

1884
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.

notes
Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor, 1840-1917), the most recognized important sculptor of the nineteenth century. Born of a modest family and rejected by the dignified Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was largely self taught. Working as an apprentice and with other sculptures he quickly established his own work.  Understanding his own vision pretty...
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Autumn Leaves

1913
Oil
53.3 x 68.6 cm (21 x 27 in.)

Victoria National Gallery

Melbourne, Australia

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Autumn on the River (Miss Violet Sargent)

1889
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Baroness de Meyer

1907
Charcoal on paper
34 1/2 x 28 in.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham, UK

notes
In 1907, the Baroness de Meyer was painted  in Venice by Sargent's friend William Bruce Ranken (1881-1941). It very well could have been in Venice where Sargent sketched her. From: Europeanpaintings.com  8/15/02 Maria Beatrice Olga Alberta Caracciolo (born in London 8 August 1871) was the daughter of the Duchess of Castelluccio, and...
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