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 | Edith, Lady Playfair (nee Russell) 1884 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 
From Gina: (web, message -- BMFA visit)
Edith Lady Playfair is the daughter of Samuel H. Russell, She married
Lyon Playfair.
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 | Mrs. Albert Vickers 1884 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA |
Study for Portrait
Mrs. Albert Vickers
c. 1885
Sargent at Harvard
Charcoal on
off-white wove paper
33.3 x 23 cm
(actual)
Gift of Miss Emily
Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer
Sargent
Notes:
Thanks to
Pat Yates for sending me this image.
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 | The Misses Vickers 1884 |
From left
to right: Florence Evelyn "Evelyn" (18 years old), Mabel Frances (21
years old), and Clara Mildred "Mildred" (19 years old)
When
Sargent showed the painting at the Paris Salon in May of '85, they snubbed it
and called it "pseudo-Velasquez." When he showed it the following
year in London at Royal Academy's exhibition of '86, it was... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Frances Mary Vickers 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Frances
Mary Vickers, née Douglas (1841-1904) was the wife of Colonel Thomas
Vickers. They were married in 1860 and would have six children:
Douglas
(1861-1937)
Married
Katherine Cherwynd
(four children)
Marbel Frances (1872-1894)
No children
Clara
Mildred "Mildred" (1865-1952)
Married 1)
Cecil Perry (d. 1901)
Married... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Colonel Thomas Vickers 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Portrait of
Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers, C.B., V.D., J.P. (1833-1915).
He became
the principle owner and Director of of the family business, a Sheffield
engineering firm called Vickers, Sons & Co. Ltd.(1) A native son of Sheffield; a prominent
business owner, the town made him Justice of the Peace and Master Cutler in
1872. He also was... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Miss Dorothy Vickers c. 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Remarks:
Formerly identified as a portrait of Izme
Vickers (identified as such in McKibbin, 1956, and
Christie's Sale 5238). For more information see Ormond & Kilmurray,
1998.
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The
early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University... | GA | igrkio |
 | 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 |
 | The Dinner Table 1884 | GA | igrkio | |
 | A Road in the South 1884 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Edward Vickers c. 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Forum
From: Michael Pettibone
<michael.
pettib
one@cccnetwork.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002
Dear
Natasha:
First, let
me congratulate you on your wonderful Sargent
website. It's so informative and
interesting. I've truly enjoyed
exploring it, although I haven't seen everything yet.
Secondly, I
was wondering if you or your... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
