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Mrs. Jacob Wendell 1888 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. John Beals Mills (Anna R. Mills) 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. John J. Chapman (Elizabeth "Bessie" Winthrop Chanler) Gift of Chanler A. Chapman |
Bessie Chanler’s inner strength comes clearly through Sargent's portrait of this feminine, yet resilient woman.
Although bred into a wealthy established American family, her life was not free
of tragedy. She shouldered much of the responsibility for her seven younger
siblings after her mother's early death; and after developing a decease of the... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears) 1899 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
From: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
This
portrait represents John Singer Sargent’s lifelong friend Sarah Sears, a
photographer and patron of the arts in Boston. Her alert pose . . . [captures],
as one critic wrote, “the nervous tension of the
age.”
(Museum of
Fine Arts)
| GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Kate Moore 1884 |
A
millionairess from Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kate Moore (1846 -1917) became one of the
leading figures in Paris high society especially among the expatiate Americans.
She lavishly entertained. Sargent, no doubt was an invited guest to some. He
would paint her a number of times. She was 38 at the time of this painting.
Although certainly a good... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Katharine Moore 1884 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France |
Mrs. Kate Moore
Notes:
Bibliography
Léonce
Bénédite , Le Musée du Luxembourg, peinture école
étrangères. Musée annexe du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1924,
n°65;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, New York, Norton 1955, p. 82;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, Londres, 1957, n°843;
Cat. exp.
J. S.... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Louis Ormond c. 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Percival Duxbury and her Daughter 1918 Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester, UK |
Note:
Bibliography
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The
later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 581.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's
Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent:... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Peter Chardon Brooks (nee Sarah Lawrence) 1890 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA |
From: Antiques and Fine Art
Mrs. Peter
Chardon Brooks, whose maiden name was Sarah Lawrence, lived from 1845 to 1915.
She was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Appleton and noted manufacturer and
philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, for whose family the Massachusetts city of
Lawrence is named.
In 1890, Sargent painted this portrait of Mrs.... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Raphael Pumpelly (nee Eliza Shepard) 1887 | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent