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 | Portrait of Benjamin Kissam 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
From: Barridoff
Galleries
Estimate:
$40000/60000
This
portrait, which was shown at the Sargent Loan
Exhibition at Copley Hall in Boston 1899 will be
included in the forthcoming Volume II of the catalogue raisonné
by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray in
collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff. It has descended in the family... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Caspar Goodrich 1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Christie's
While all
of Newport angled for a meeting with the great European-bred artist, Sargent
resided comfortably with his old friends, Admiral and Mrs. Caspar Goodrich,
parents of the young sitter. Charles Merrill Mount describes Sargent's arrival
in the United States: "He arrived at Torpedo Station huge and dominant,
smiling and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Claude Monet 1889 National Academy of Design New York, NY |
Though Sargent's work was increasingly more and more about
portraits, diverging substantially from the work Monet was doing, the two men
retained a very close friendship.
A wounderful account of this was written by Martin Birnbaum called "John Singer Sargent,
A Conversation Piece." Many years later (maybe around 1901 when there was
a lot of... | 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 Dorothy (Dorothy Williamson) 1900 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX |
From Dallas Museum of Art (9/5/08)
Dorothy
Williamson was the granddaughter of George Millar Williamson, one of John
Singer Sargent's first American patrons. Sargent painted Dorothy's portrait in London in 1900 and
exhibited the work the following year at the Society of American Artists in New
York. The New York Times critic wrote, "The... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Dorothy Barnard 1889 |
From: Fitzwilliam Museum
The subject
of this unfinished portrait was Miss Dorothy Barnard (1878-1949), daughter of
the painter and illustrator of Dickens -- Frederick Barnard (1848-96), one of
Sargent's friends from the artistic colony in the Cotswold village of Broadway,
whom he met for the first time in 1885. Dorothy and her sister Polly were... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Loise Pailleron 1881 |
The
Children's parents were painted by John two years previous:
Monsieur and Madame
Pailleron
1879
Notes:
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
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 | Portrait of Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild 1887 |
Mrs.
Charles Fairchild (Elizabeth Nelson
Fairchild 1845-1924).
Sargent
sent this painting off to be exhibited it at the New English Art Club that same
year. Mrs. Fairchild was a poet and was often a hostess of parties for artist
friends. It was probably through one of these social gatherings that John first
met them. It would be Mr.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Emily Winthrop Miles (Mrs. Corey Lucien Miles) 1924 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie 1905 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(05-Sep-2001)
This
[Wertheimer portrait] is unusually lively, and shows her wearing, as a joke,
the Court dress of Lord Londonderry, which had been left in Sargent’s
studio by another of his sitters. The portrait’s sub-title refers to her
billowing cloak. The first of the Wertheimer family portraits was... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
