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 | Palmettos (2nd painting) 1917 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Palms 1917 Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Paul Helleu (watercolor) c. 1882-1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Paul Helleu Lying in a Field c. 1889 | 
Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife
1889
Portrait of Paul Helleu
c. 1885-1889
Note:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife 1889 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
The
painting was given very little notice in the reviews when it was exhibited,
however I find it one of my favorites of John's work and one of his truest
Impressionistic paintings.
Paul
César Helleu (French, 1859-1927) met Alice Louise Guérin in Paris
in 1884 and they married two years later. Alice became Paul's favorite model.
Over the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Paul Manship January 30, 1921 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pauline Astor c. 1898 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino San Marino, CA |
"This
is Sargent's largest and most impressive Full-Length Portrait in a Landscape
Setting" (The Huntington's
description on notecards and posters)
From: Traditional Fine Art Online
"Pauline
Astor (1880-1970), who sat for her portrait by Sargent, was the eldest daughter
of the Amencan financier William Waldorf Astor, who emigrated from New... | GA | igrkio |
 | Percy Grainger 1907? |
From: National Gallery of Australia
The
Edwardians: Secrets and Desires
Jacques-Emile Blanche
Percy Grainger
1906
Percy
Grainger (1882–1961), a famous pianist, composer and conductor, was born
in Australia and later gained American citizenship. “From 1901, he was
based in London, where he became popular at... | GA | igrkio |
 | Perseus, Florence c. 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sketch of Cellini's Perseus watercolor
Note:
Sold
Sothebys; 5/22/1996; Lot 9; $68,500
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
The site
indicated the painting to be in the collection of Bernadette Berger.
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 | Persian Artifact with Faience Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Peter A. B. Widener 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Philip Resheph
philip. re s heph@btinternet.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005
[A] black and white image of Peter A. B.
Widener is reproduced in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's new book (which I
have just bought) on Italian Paintings in the Johnson Collection 1250-1450 on
page 2 (fig. 3).
(Editor's Note - I've been able to find a
color... | GA | igrkio |
 | Peter A. B. Widener 1902 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Painted in
Sargent's Tite Street studio in London.
From: The National Gallery
During the
Civil War, Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1834-1915) was a tradesman who supplied
meat to the Union Army near Philadelphia. Following the war, he successfully
invested his profits in trolley cars and public transit systems. He collected
in the princely... | GA | igrkio |
 | Peter Augustus Jay 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Image taken
from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian
Catalogue of Works
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1998, no. 32.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston:... | GA | igrkio |
 | Peter Harrison (Siesta) c. 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Peter Harrison Asleep 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Peter Harrison Mug 1910 Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum Colorado Springs, CO |
Giovanni Boldini
Portrait of the Artist: Lawrence Alexander "Peter"
Harrison
1902
From: Peter Harrison
peter
har ri son@comcast.net
Date: Mon,
25 Apr 2005
The
attached drawing of my grandfather by Sargent was found amongst the scrapbook material which
belonged to Dorothy Palmer and which the museum had... | GA | igrkio |
 | Phyllis Langhorne 1910 |
"Three Sisters, from Charcoal Drawings by John S. Sargent"
Cover
The Century Magazine in 1914
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Phyllis
Langhorne. Sister to Lady Astor and one of three sisters features in The
Century Magazine of 1914.
Notes:... | GA | igrkio |
 | Piazza Navona, Rome 1907 Collection of Erving and Joyce Wolf | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pilaster Capitals and Entablature, University of Genoa 1908 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pine Forest c 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pointy (portrait of Louise Burckhardt's dog) 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Christies
Pointy was
a mongrel owned by John Singer Sargent's close friend Louise Burckhardt. Edward
and Elizabeth Burckhardt, and their two daughters, Louise and Valerie, were
expatriates living in Paris. Sargent painted each member of the Burckhardt
family between 1880-1885, and the present picture was painted from sketches
Sargent made... | GA | igrkio |
 | Polly Barnard 1885-6 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Polly Barnard (A.K.A Girl in White Muslin) 1889 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
1885-86
(Polly Barnard with her sister years earlier)
Portrait of Dorothy Barnard
1889
(sister to Polly Barnard)
Mrs. Frederick Barnard
1885
(mother to Polly Barnard)
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 | Pomegranates 1908 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pomegranates (Oil) 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pomegranates, Majorca c. 1908 The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation Tuscaloosa, AL | GA | igrkio | |
 | Ponte Della Canonica, Venice 1903-7 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Ponte San Giuseppe di Castello, Venice c.1903 - 1904 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pope Paul III after Titian Early 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Poperinghe: Two Soldiers 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Poppies 1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait de Rodin 1915 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait drawing ("Mug") of Mrs. Redmond McGrath 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Gratitude to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley of
Sheffield, England for sending me the image and information.
From: Wendy & Gordon Hawksley
<g w @ whawksley. fsnet. co. uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002
[Shown at the] "'Society Portraits
1850 - 1939' - this was an exhibition held at the Colnaghi
Gallery and the Clarendon Gallery... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait drawing ("Mug") of Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Beatty 1919 Private collection: Mrs.John Nutting USA |
From: "Society
Portraits 1850 - 1939"
Earl Beatty
was the most distinguished naval commander to serve in the Great War; he was
Vice-Admiral in command of the British advance forces at the Battle of Jutland
in 1916. David Beatty was knighted in 1914 and created Earl Beatty in 1919, the
year in which the present portrait was drawn. Earl Beatty was... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait drawing ("Mug") of Mrs. George Swinton 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
John had
painted Elsie Swinton (Mrs. George Swinton) in 1897. Elsie had married Captan
George Swinton two years previous ('95). The Swintons were friends with a
number of painters including Sargent. Others of note were William Orpen -- who did a family portrait for the
Swintons, and Walter Richard Sickert.
(1)
Sargent was
an... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of a Child Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait of a Man (2) Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait of Alfred Parsons 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Alfred
William Parsons RA (1847-1920) was British landscape painter and illustrator,
born in Somerset raied in London.
He became
very much apart of the close nit artist group at
Broadway, probably through his friendship with Abbey -- they were roomates in London and had studios right next door to each
other. He illustrated for Harper's New... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Ambrogio Raffele 1904 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait of Arthur Daintrey c. 1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Daintrey
was an English [1] art student in Paris who enrolled in Alexandre Cabanel's
atelier in 1872 at the age of 29. He was born in 1843 and if the dating of this
painting is correct, he would have been 39 when Sargent painted him.
Other
artists in Cabanel's atelier in the 70's included Henry Bacon, Frank Fowler,
Charles Stuart Forbes, Kenyon... | GA | igrkio |
 | 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
