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Mrs. Charles Hunter (nee Mary Smyth) 1898 |
Mary Smyth
married Charles Hunter in 1875 along with his huge fortune in mining interests.
She had an eccentric sister, Ethel Smyth (whom John would draw in 1901). The
two women were quite the pair. Mary was not to be outdone by her sister -- or
at least she tried. It was her 'sacred duty,' her sister would reflect in her
1940 memoir "What... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Charles Huntington (nee' Jane Hudson Sparkes later: Lady Huntington) 1898 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
Note:
Bibliography:
"American
Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 932.
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2002, no. 361.
"The
Brooklyn Museum, American... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Charles Pelham Curtis 1903 Portland Museum of Art Portland, ME | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Douglas Dick (Isabelle Parrott) 1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Brigadier Archibald Campbell Douglas
1886
(husband to Isabelle)
Notes:
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Mrs. Edmond Kelly (nee Fannie Bartow) 1899 | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Edward Burckhardt and her Daughter Louise 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Edward Darley Boit (Mary Louisa Cushing) Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Edward Goetz 1901 Brigham Young University, Museum of Fine Arts Provo, UT |
The sitter
was an amateur pianist and composer.
Notes:
Biliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 401.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration: ... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Edward L Davis and her Son, Livingston Davis 1890 |
Mr. Edward
L Davis was a former mayor of Worcester
From L.A. County Museum of
Art
Sargent
spent June of 1890 in Worcester, Massachusetts, executing what proved to be
among the most important of numerous portrait commissions from New York and
Boston clients. His subjects, the socially prominent Mrs. Edward Livingston
Davis and her young son,... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Ernest G. Raphael (Flora Cecilia Sassoon) 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Sothebys
The present
work depicts Flora Cecilia Sassoon, the daughter of Kate Ezekiel and Reuben
Sassoon who married Ernest Raphael, a London financier, in May 1893. It is one of
three portraits of the Raphael family Sargent painted between 1904 and 1906.
Each depicts the wife of one of the Raphael cousins,
descendants
of Mr. R.... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent