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Mrs Claude Beddington 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From:
Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Mar 30, 2006
From Mrs.
Claude Beddington, All That I Have Met, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1929, p. 151-7:
[Biographical Note: The author was born
Frances Ethel, daughter of Francis Berry Homan-Mulock
of Ballycumber House, County Offaly,
Ireland. She married Col. Claude Beddington.... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs Frank Millet ("Lily", nee Elizabeth Merrill) 1885-1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs Gardner in White 1920 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA |
he
following is from from Bert (The Pragmatic Romanticist):
. . .A
lovely watercolour of Isabella Stewart Gardner portraying her at age 82, after
her debilitating stroke in 1919. "Even I think it is exquisite", she
wrote of it. It is quietly intimate. I like it. It's from the book I have about
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a place that I... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs George Batten Singing c. 1897 Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, UK |
From: Matt Davies
<matt
davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002
Mrs. Batten
(nee Mabel Veronica Hatch, c. 1857-1915) was the daughter of an upper-class
military family, and grew up for a time in India. There she met and married
George Batten, an older military officer, and later they moved to London. In... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs George Gribble (Norah Royds) 1888 |
Norah Royds (1859-1923) married George James Gribble (of London)
on July 27, 1881. Seven years later, when she was about twenty-nine, Sargent painted her. They would have six children:
i.
Phyllis
ii. Norah
le Grand
iii.
Lesley
iv.
Barbara
v. Philip
le Grand 1891-
vi.
Julian Royds, VC 1897-19
Norah
survive, but... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs George Lewis 1892 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs J. W. Crombie 1898 |
From: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
The sitter,
Minna Wason was the wife of James Wiiliam Crombie M.P. Her husband was a first
cousin of Theodore Crombie. Minna Crombie, who came from Ayrshire, was a noted
philanthropist. After her only son was killed in the First World War, she took
up braille and translated many books for the blind. Sargent... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs Philip Leslie Agnew 1902 |
Read a
letter describing a sitter's experience (possibly Mrs. Philip Leslie Agnew) as
she is painted by Sargent (see letter).
From: The Tate
This
portrait was commissioned in 1902 by Philip Leslie Agnew (1863–1938), the
Chairman and Managing Director of Bradbury Agnew & Co., the proprietors of
Punch magazine. He was the grandson of... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs Ralph Curtis (Lisa de Wolfe Colt) 1898 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH |
From:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
There is
another painting by Sargent that I did not see on your site. I'm not sure if it is listed anywhere on
the web, but I thought you might like to see it. It has been on exhibition in the
Cleveland Museum of Art since it was acquired in 1998. It is not a well-known
piece because it hasn't left the... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs Wertheimer 1904 | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent