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The Countess of Rocksavage later Marchioness of Cholmondeley (Sybil Sassoon)

1922
Oil on canvas
161.3 x 89.8 cm (63 1/2 x 35 5/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Three-quarter-length standing portrait of the Countess of Rocksavage wearing a black dress with stand-up collar, gold panel down the front, red accents, and gold train hanging for the shoulders. She wears several long strands of pearls with a gold winged jewel hanging at her breast. She holds a single flower in her right...
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The Artist Sketching

1922
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

Private collection on loan to the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI

notes
I have been told that Edith was the photographer of the photo of Sargent on Dwight's yacht [Thumbnail]. Note that Sargent, who always like to paint under a large parasol/umbrella, had no place to put the parasol on board the boat, so he tied it to his leg, with supporting stays to various parts of the boat. Several of those lines are visible in...
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On the Verandah (Ironbound Island, Maine)

1920-1922?
Watercolor on paper
38.1 x 52.1 cm (15 x 20 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Sargent painted his friend and artist Dwight Blaney. This would be one of Sargent's last scene paintings.  From: Ben Blaney   bb la  ney@ironbound.net  Date: Wednesday, December 17-20, 2003  JSS visited my grandfather Dwight Blaney several times on Ironbound Island, and made at least 7 paintings there, only 2 of which I found on...
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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

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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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Sir Philip Sassoon

1923
Oil on canvas
95.2 x 57.8cm

notes
charcoal drawing of Sir Philip Sassoon  1923? See Sargent's paintings of Sasson's sister:  Sibyl Sasson-Countess of Rocksavage  1913      
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Duke of York (later King George V)

1923
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Matt Davies   <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>    Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2002   These first two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r. 1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), daughter of...
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Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore

1923
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Matt Davies   <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>    Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2002   These first two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r. 1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), daughter of...
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Lady Elixabeth Bowes-Lyon

1923
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Matt Davies   <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>    Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2002   These first two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r. 1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother), daughter of...
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Viscountess Astor

1923
Chalk
55.9 x 38.1 cm (22 x 15 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

1923
Charcoal
Unknown size

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Washington, D.C.

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From: Special Collections in the Library of Congress In 1935 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953), one of the great patrons of music, created at the Library of Congress the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation for the support of chamber music. Her aim, Mrs. Coolidge wrote in that year's Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, was "to make...
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