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 | 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 |
 | Dame Ethel Smyth 1901 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
From: Women's Voices
Dame Ethel
Mary Smyth (1858-1944) overcame the constraints of her middle-class English
background by open rebellion. Taught piano and theory as ladylike
accomplishments, she became so concentrated in her studies that her family
deemed them unsuitably intense, and stopped her lessons. The teenaged Ethel
went on a... | GA | igrkio |
 | Egerton Leigh Winthrop 1901 Knickerbocker Club New York, NY |
Description:
Three-quarter-length
standing portrait of Egerton Leigh Winthrop (1838-1916) wearing a morning coat
and yellow waistcoat. He holds a cane and top hat in his right hand.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer
Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New... | GA | igrkio |
 | George McCulloch 1901 Boston Athenaeum Boston, MA |
George
McCulloch (1848-1907) made his fortune in silver mining in Australia before
coming to London to live as a gentleman of leisure and art collector. He was
friends with many of the Royal Academy and had, by the time of his death,
amassed an amazing collection of contemporary work numbering more than 400 with
more than half of those considered... | GA | igrkio |
 | On His Holidays 1901 Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight Village, UK |
The
painting is of Alexander McCulloch (1887 - 1951). He was with his father George
McCulloch (thumbnail) and John during a trip to the Sundal Valley in Norway in 1901.
Alexander was something like 14 years old at the time and Sargent paints him
with his school cap on.
When you
see this thing in a gallery, it's huge and nearly takes up a... | GA | igrkio |
 | A Torrent in Norway 1901 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Spanierman
Gallery does not date the work. It, however, falls in line with other work done
in Norway in 1901.
Sold at Spanierman Gallery date unknown
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 | Duke of Portland 1901 |
Sargent
would paint his wife the following year:
Winifred, Duches of
Portland
1902
Philip Alexius de
Laszlo
British portrait painter,
1869-1937
Duke of Portland
1912
Notes:
The Work of
John Singer Sargent, which I belive was published in 1903.
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 | Winifred, Duchess of Portland (Winifred Dallas-Yorke) 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Description:
Full-length
standing portrait of the Duchess of Portland (1863-1954) leaning against a
white marble mantlepiece. She wears a white satin gown with a standing collar and
a red velvet cloak. Strands of pearls festoon across her corsage from a pearl
brooch. She wears bracelets and rings and holds a book in her left... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lord Ribblesdale 1902 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Lord Ribblesdale was Thomas Lister (1854-1925), 4th Baron Ribblesdale. He
was Master of the Buckhounds from 1892 to 1895, Liberal Whip of the House of
Lords, Lord-in-Waiting, and a Trustee of the National Gallery, London, from
1909 until his death.
Sargent
first met him at an Artists’ Benevolent Fund dinner then stayed with him
at his house... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Marion Roller Also entitled Madge Roller (Marian) 1893 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Madge, is
the daughter of Nattie and Harold Roller.
From: Michael Roller
ro lle rs@ukgateway.net
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004
I had an
interesting e-mail a while ago from someone called Tony Hirtenstein,
who is Netty Huxley's great grandson! He had come
across my my e-mail address at the [Mrs. Frederick
William... | GA | igrkio |
 | William M. Chase, N. A. 1902 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916)
American Painter
William
Merritt Chase was an eclectic painter known for his portraits, landscapes, and
still lifes. He worked in all mediums -- oils, water
colors, pastels and etching. He loved teaching and was greatly influential with
young artists for 36 years. Among his pupils were Georgia O'Keeffe,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Acheson Sisters 1902 Devonshire Collection Chatsworth, UK |
From: 'Society Portraits
1850 - 1939' [1]
The Ladies
Alexandra, Mary and Theodosia Acheson were the three daughters of the fourth
Earl of Gosford. They married respectively The Hon. Frederic William Stanley,
The Hon. Robert Arthur Ward and The Hon. Alexander George Codogan. The history
of how the present portrait came to be commissioned is not... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Misses Hunter 1902 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(11-Jan-1994)
Sargent was
commissioned to paint Kathleen, Cary Phyllis and Sylvia Hunter by their mother
Mary, who was a leading Edwardian society hostess and close friend both of
Sargent and Rodin. The fan held by the centre figure echoes the overall sweep
of the young women's full skirts in what is a... | GA | igrkio |
 | Charles Stewart, Sixth Marquess of Londonderry, Carrying the Great Sword of State at the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902 and Mr. W. C. Beaumont, His Page on that Occasion, 1904 1902/1904 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
From: Boston Globe
Date: 7/2/2003
Museum adds a Sargent
to collection
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff, 7/2/2003
The Museum
of Fine Arts confirmed yesterday that it has purchased the John Singer Sargent painting
entitled ''Charles Stewart, Sixth Marquess of Londonderry, Carrying the Great
Sword of State at the Coronation of King Edward VII,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain) 1902 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
The
Chamberlain's son, Neville Chamberlain, was the one that declared
"peace in our time" with Hitler (right before WWII).
Forum:
From: Wonsug
Jung
10/10/1999
I scanned [Millais painting]
just for the comparison with Sargent's work done 11
years later.
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 | Portrait of Mrs. Charles B Alexander 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Description:
Three-quarter-length
seated portrait of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander (nee Harriet Crocker
1859-1935) wearing a white satin gown with gold embellishments and a white boa.
She wears a pearl necklace and is holding a fan in her right hand.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts One... | 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. Arthur Knowles and her Two Sons 1902 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH |
From: Butler Institute of American Art
The subject
of the painting is Mrs. Arthur Knowles, formerly Mildred Clare Buchanan, third
daughter of Captain James Buchanan of the 70th regiment. Mildred Buchanan
married Arthur Lees Knowles of Alvaston Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire, who became
High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1894.
The two
children are John... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Frederick McCorquodale 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
George
Frederick McCorquodale (1853-1936) wearing a black velvet coat.
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 430.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lady Evelyn Cavendish 1902 The Duke of Devonshire and The Chatsworth House Trust Chatsworth House, UK |
Born Lady
Evelyn Fitzmaurice, daughter of the Fifth Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1892 she
married Victor Cavendish. When
Victor's uncle the Duke of Devonshire died childless in 1908, Victor and Evelyn
succeeded as Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.
Philip Alexius de Laszlo
British portrait painter,
1869-1937
Henry... | 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 |
 | John Fyfe 1902 |
From:
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Sargent
may have painted this portrait at his London studio but he did visit Aberdeen
as he was a good friend of local artist Joseph Farquharson.
John Fyfe was born at 'Goodhope', Bucksburn
in 1830. He owned granite quarries at Blackburn and Kemnay.
From the Kemnay quarry came
the stone for the Town House... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Charles Hunter (mug) (nee Mary Smyth) 1902 Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester, NY |
Mrs. Charles Hunter
1898
Notes:
Exhibitions
1916, Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened
June, 1916.
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | The Grand Canal Venice c. 1902 |
The Canal
Grande (Grand Canal) is the main channel that snakes through the bulk of the
islands of Venice. It is along the Grande that the stately Plazzi (palaces) are
found.
This
watercolor (Grand Canal Venice) was a gift to Sargent's friend Leon Delafosse
whom he had painted in 1899.
Leon Delafosse
1899
... | GA | igrkio |
 | Small Channel in Venice c. 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Side Canal in Venice
1902
Watercolor on paper
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Drying Sails c. 1902 |
Notes:
I have
dated this painting 1902 -- a similar dating as another watercolor given to
Delafosse. Sothebys dates the painting c. 1909, but without knowing their
reasons I feel earlier might be more likely.
Leon Delafosse
1899
This watercolor
will be included in the forthcoming J.S. Sargent catalogue raisonné by
Richard... | GA | igrkio |
 | Side Canal in Venice 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Photos of Side Canals
Sargent did
numerous paintings of side canals over the course of his verious trips. This
one we see is done in a gondola, as many of them were. A stone bridge is in the
distance and such a delightful sense of the shimmering water.
Note:
Sold at Sotherbys, 20-May-1998; lot
29
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 | Boats at Dock c. 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
The
painting reportedly came with provenance and had been authenticated. Offered
for sale at E-bay; 4/10/01; Parkway Antiques, Los Angeles; (626-584-5868)
| GA | igrkio |
 | Venice (1) 1902+? Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The view is
looking north down the Piazzetta with the corner of the Libreria on the left
and the dome of the Basilica San Marco
in the distance. The column in the middle would be St Theodor on his
crocodile.
In July,
1902, the campanile (the tower that had always been behind the Libreria)
collapsed changing the visual landscape of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Libreria c. 1902-12 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
More on the
Libreria see:
The Piazzetta,
Venice
c.1904
Watercolor on paper
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Oxen on the Beach at Baia (Bay at Naples) 1902 or 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Saw this
dated 1902 by Spanierman Gallery as well as 1908 by Findlay Jr. Inc.
gallery. The "bay at Naples" was off the title at the David Findlay
Jr. Inc. gallery
Provenance
1988-1996
Private collection
1946-1988
Private collection,
Chicago, IL
1946
Jack Shore,
... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Letter, Portrait of Violet Ormond 1902 |
Violet
1881
Notes:
My
gratitude to Stephanie for letting me know about this painting on the net.
As of 2/24/2002
it was offered for sale at Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc.
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 | Statue of Perseus by Night c. 1902 Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara, CA |
John would
do a number of paintings of Cellini's Perseus
Sketch of Cellini's
"Perseus" watercolor, Loggia dei Lanzi
Note:
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
| GA | igrkio |
 | Facade of a Palazzo, Girgente, Sicily 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note
Sold
Christie's New York : May 26, 1999; Lot 15; 79,500
US$
As of Jan
15, 2003, I saw the image at artnet.com showing the painting sold through Keny Galleries
| GA | igrkio |
 | Frieze of Angels 1903 Boston Public Library Boston, MA |
The Frieze
of Angels with eight in number represent Regeneration and the Resurrection as
Christ rose on the eighth day.
Below
Christ's feet and between the two angles is a pelican feeding its young from
the blood of its breast which is also an ancient symbol of the Resurrection
(Charteris P.166).
The Doctrine of the
Trinity,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch 1903 Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, NE |
Painted in
1903 when the artist was in Boston supervising a mural project for the Boston
Public Library
(Joslyn, 10/13/2008)
Three-quarter-length
seated portrait of Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1867-1941)
wearing a white and blue gown with blue stole. A base of a pillar is behind her
at left; she rests her right arm on a table covered with... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Official White House portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. |
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) twenty-sixth president of the
United States.
Sargent's
painting would be the official portrait of the President, but it wasn't the
first. In 1902 Theobald Chartran
was commissioned
to paint portraits of the President and his wife. Although she enjoyed her's (a feminine portrait of her on a bench outside... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of John Hay 1903 John Hay Library, Brown University Providence, RI |
John Hay
was the U.S. Secretary of State.
From: Brown University
During the
month of February, 1903, John Singer Sargent painted
John Hay's portrait. In a letter
written to his daughter, Helen Hay Whitney, Hay wrote facetiously: "It is
an odd thought that most of my reputation will depend on this picture."
The following year, Augustus... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of General Leonard Wood 1903 |
Description:
Bust
portrait of General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) in his military uniform.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts Seventy Third Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1904, no. 56.
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John... | GA | igrkio |
 | Edward Robinson 1903 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
This
portrait is of the esteemed director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts --
Edward Robinson who was appointed director in 1902.
It is the
same Edward Robinson who would later strike the deal with Sargent (1916) to buy
Madame X for the Metropolitan Museum in New York. John had known Edward since
the 1890's when Edward was working
at the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott (mug) 1903 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel 1903 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Forum:
From: Michael S. Burroughs
<Mjbur roughs md@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003
One of his many
interesting paintings is that of 'Mrs. Fiske Warren and her daughter Rachel'
one, the ties that the painting has to the Isabella Stewart Gardner home.
Which, obviously today we know it as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Ethel Barrymore (Print from her Autobiography) 1903 |
From: Francesca Miller
fran ce
sca. miller@comcast.net
Date:
Oct 13, 2005
I did some
looking around on the internet and I found a 1st addition autobiography on
Ethel Barrymore which I purchased. It finally came in the mail and I scanned
the image of Ethel from the dust jacket. The book is old and mildewed but it's
a first... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott Jr. 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Sothebys:
Marie
Louise 'Lulu' Thoron (1864-1958) was the daughter of Joseph and Anna Barker
Ward Thoron. In 1889 she married William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. . . .
Mr. and Mrs.
Endicott, Jr. resided with his parents, dividing their time between the family
home in Boston and the Peabody family farm, Glen Magna Farms, . . .
One... | 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 |
 | Fortress, Roads and Rocks 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Exhibited
London,
Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition of Works by the Late John Singer Sargent,
R.A., 1926.
Sale
Offered but
not sold at Christies, New York, Dec 01, 2005; Sale Number 1578, Lot 52;
Estimate 62,000 - 80,000 USD
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 | Spanish Solders c. 1903 |
In 1903 Sargent exhibits his watercolors to the public for
the first time at the Carfax Gallery in London. This
one-man show contained 30 of his works including sketches. Afterwards in May of
that year, Sargent travels to Spain and paints a
number of watercolors depicting Spanish solders (these may be part of those
done that year). ... | GA | igrkio |
 | Spanish Solders (1) c. 1903 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
In 1903 Sargent exhibits his watercolors to the public for
the first time at the Carfax Gallery in London. This
one-man show contained 30 of his works including sketches. Afterwards in May of
that year, Sargent travels to Spain and paints a
number of watercolors depicting Spanish solders (these may be part of those
done that year). ... | GA | igrkio |
 | A Spanish Barracks c.1901 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Sothebys
A letter
from David McKibbin dated September 1966 (from the Library of the Boston
Athenaeum) to Mr. Fraad notes, "Your Spanish Barracks which was given to
Dr. Playfair in 1906 was I think painted in 1903 when Sargent was at Santiago
de Compostela, for the scene is the Hospital Real there, where a whole series
of soldiers... | GA | igrkio |
 | Scuola di San Rocco 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The
watercolor appears to be the canal side of San Rocco
Campo Behind the
Scuola di San Racco, Venice
c. 1880-82
Campo di San Rocco
Photo
Notes:
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
Forum
From: Craig Appel
<ab te knik@comcast.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003
I think the
canal depicted must... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venice: the prisons c. 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The old
prison is to the right. On the left is the front of Palazzo Ducale. Connecting
the two buildings is the infamous Bridge of Sighs.
Bridge of
Sighs
1904
Watercolor on paper
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image. ... | GA | igrkio |
 | Palazzo Labia with Campanile of San Geremia 1903 Spanierman Gallery New York, NY |
Palazzo Labia and San Geremia Venice
1913
Oil on canvas
Notes:
As of
12/4/2002 the painting was offered for sale at Spanierman Gallery
| GA | igrkio |
 | Boats at anchor on the Lagoons, Venice 1903 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
Notes:
Inscriptions/Marks
1. Position:
old frame, verso
Method: chalk
Content:
July 24 / 25
2. Position: old frame, verso Method: chalk Content:
20
3. Position: old frame, verso Method: stamp Content: 654
EB Description: sale room rubber stamp
4. Position: old frame, verso Method: stamp... | GA | igrkio |
 | Boats, Venice 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Christies
. . . The present work is dominated by
three main aspects. The first is a line down the center of the work, defined
chiefly by the prow of the near boat and its reflection. The other two consist of
mirror-image diagonals that intersect at this vertical center line; at the
bottom of the work the anchor line meets the seam... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venice, sailing boat c. 1903 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Sir Frank Swettenham 1904 National Museum in Singapore Singapore, Republic of Singapore |
Sir Frank
Athelstane Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General of the
Federated Malay States (part of the then Royal Colonies, now independent
Malaysia) which was formed by combining a number of kingdoms. He served from
July 1, 1896 to 1901. The portrait was commissioned by the Straits Association
(the then government) to commemorate... | GA | igrkio |
 | General Charles J. Paine 1904 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
General
Charles Paine, was a three time defender of the America's Cup races: 1885 with
the yacht "Puritan"; '86 with "Mayflower" and finally in
'87 with the boat "Volunteer" -- so named for Paine's division of
black volunteers he commanded during the the civil war.
After
graduating from Harvard, with the war underway, he joined the army and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mary E. Garrett (Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, 1917 copied from the portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1904.) c 1904 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD |
From: Bryn Mawr College
[Miss Carey
Thomas, a close friend of Garrett since college] first approached Sargent about
the Garrett commission in 1902 but Sargent declined, citing too many other
projects. By 1904, however, he relented and both Garrett and Thomas went to
London for the sitting. Sargent's first efforts were not to their liking,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Joseph Joachim 1904 Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, ON |
From: www.hnh.com
Joachim,
Joseph (1831-1907) Violinnist.
Generally
regarded as one of the finest violinists of his generation. At thirteen he took
London by storm, a city he was to visit frequently in the following years. He
was later to form a particular friendship with Brahms who acted as his
accompanist. The benefits were mutual, Joachim... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Manuel Garcia 1904-1905 Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Providence, RI |
From: anonymous
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004
Manuel
Garcia is known as the father of laryngology
(pertaining to medicine and surgery for the voice box). Garcia was a Professor of Singing in
London and in 1855 created a mirror which permitted him to see his own voice
box, something which ultimately gave rise to a whole branch of surgery
(ENT). ... | GA | igrkio |
 | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland 1904 Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Lugano, Switzerland |
Lady
Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine, The Duchess of Sutherland and wife of the
4th Duke (d. 1955), was a writer and editor, and served in the Red Cross during
World War I. She was the half-sister to the Countess of Warwick.
Rosemary,
Viscountess Ednam
1917 or 1919
(daughter to
Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland)
... | GA | igrkio |
 | Countess of Lathom 1904 Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA |
The
Countess (nee Wilma "Queenie" Pley-dell-Bouverie 1869-1931) married
first Edward George, second Earl of Lathom in 1899. After his death in 1910,
she married Lieutenant-General Sir Henry M. Lawson in 1912.
Full-length
seated portrait of the Countess of Lathom wearing a plum velvet gown with gauzy
stole and a blue wrap. She wears a tiara... | GA | igrkio |
 | Eva Wertheimer/Antonio Mancini 1904 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Antonio Mancini
c 1898
Note:
Offered
Sotheby's; 3/11/92; Lot 51; $20,000-$30,000
Sold
Sotheby's; 5/24/90; Lot 131; $44,000
Forum
From: eva wertheimer
<eva idawerth eimer@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004
I'm so
thrilled and moved at finding this. I am from Holland.
I don't
know if I am related.
A few... | GA | igrkio |
 | An Artist in His Studio 1904 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Bed of a mountain torrent in Tirolo c. 1904 - 07 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the
JSS Gallery, for sending me a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent
and Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Mountain Fire c. 1903-1908 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Todd Baldini, of Colorado, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for help on
this painting.
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Lady Helen Vincent (nee d'Abernon) 1904 Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham, AL |
The
painting was done in Venice at a palazzo. The Grand Cannel can be seen through
the rail.
From: Lora Premo
(l
premo 17@comcast.net)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004
Natasha,
I'm pretty sure that Lady Helen Vincent is not "nee D'Abernon" [as
was previously stated below]. I believe that her husband, Lord D'Abernon, was
elevated from the... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Piazzetta, Venice c.1904 |
The view in
the painting is facing the front of the old Library (designed by Jacopo
Sansovino in 1536) the Pizzetta to the right and beyond which leads to St.
Mark’s Square from the lagoon where Sargent paints this. You can somewhat
see the winged lion of St. Mark in the background (thumbnail left). The
freestanding column supporting St Theodor... | GA | igrkio |
 | Santa Maria della Salute 1904 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
On the Steps of the Salute
c.1906
Watercolor
The Santa
Maria della Salute is one of the significant buildings of Venice (thumbnail).
Sargent painted it a number of times, but never full-on or complete.
He characterized
his paintings in Venice as "snapshots" and wanted very much to
capture the feel of the place... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sketching on the Giudecca, Venice c. 1904 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The Canal
della Giudecca is the wide channel of water south of the main grouping of
islands and north of the long La Giudecca island at the bottom of the map.
In a Gondola (Jane de Glehn)
1904
To find his
scenes in and around Venice, Sargent often paints directly from gondolas taking
a page right out of Claude... | GA | igrkio |
 | Base of a Palace 1904 |
The base of
the palace would be more than likely the Grand Canal entrance to a palazzo. In
a letter from Janet Jewell (bellow), she thinks Sargent has painted is of the
Palazzo Grimani. All of these grand palaces have their front entrances onto the
canal instead of a paved street. Here, Sargent seems to be just interested in
the base of the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Palazzo Grimani c. 1904 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Bridge of Sighs 1904 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
Photo The Bridge of Sighs
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | Portrait of William Thorne 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes
Exhibited:
New York,
National Academy of Design, Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, March-April 1906,
no. 290
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, The Eleventh Annual Exhibition, April-June 1907, no. 407
Washington,
D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, First Annual Exhibition, Oil Paintings by
Contemporary American Artists, February-March 1907, no.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lord Airedale, Sir James Kitson 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Artnet.com
Sir James
Kitson, Lord Airedale, was one of the most influential men in Britain and a
driving force in the evolution of the Industrial Revolution. . . .
Director of
the North Eastern Railway, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, Chairman
of the Yorkshire Banking Company, a Member of Parliament and of the Institute
of... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mme. Eugenia Errazuriz c. 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 |
 | Countess of Warwick and Son (Frances Evelyn 'Daisy' Maynard) 1905 Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA |
From: Matt Davies
<matt davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002
Countess of Warwick and Son
1906
Photo by Lafayette, London
Frances
Evelyn ('Daisy') Maynard, Countess of Warwick, was the grand-daughter and
co-heiress of the last Viscount Maynard.
In 1881, after being considered as a... | 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 |
 | Duke of Marlborough Family 1905 Duke of Malborough collection, Blenheim Palace Woodstock, UK |
Major construction going on here
John was
commissioned to paint a portrait of the 9th Duke of Marlbourough family that
would serve as a pendent to the family portrait of the 4th Duke done by Sir
Joshua Reynolds. It is within this confinement that Sargent tackles the
composition.
At the center
top is the bust of the first Duke between the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Landscape in Oxfordshire 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Duke of Marlborough Family
(9th Duke)
1905
Duke of Malborough collection,
Blenheim Palace
Oxfordshire, England
Oil on canvas
332.7 x 238.8 cm (131 x 94 in.)
Note:
Spanierman
Gallery does not date the work. He was, however, in Oxfordshire to paint the
Duke of Marlborough Family in... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Miss Eliza Wedgewood c. 1905 |
Miss Eliza
Wedgwood is a member of the famous porcelain manufacturing family, a personal
friend of his sister Emily and John and she accompanied them on some of their
trips. John paints her a number of times such as Miss Wedgwood & Miss
Sargent, Sketching (1908) and Mosquito Nets (1908).
But what
I've grown to love so much about John's water... | GA | igrkio |
 | Miss Eden 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Natasha:
The
painting that I would like to see added to your wonderful website is "Miss
Eden" painted in 1905. This painting was included in the last 1999 Sargent
Show at The National gallery of Art. It is unusual because it is a watercolor
done in the formal style of his oils, perhaps the only one he ever did in this
style.
Regards,
Jack... | GA | igrkio |
 | Group with Parasols c. 1905 |
Painting of
Peter Harrison and his brother Ginx Harrison with two women, possibly Dos
Palmer and Lillian Mellor.
Giovanni Boldini (1845
-1931)
Italian-French portrait
painter
Portrait of the Artist: Lawrence Alexander "Peter" Harrison
From: Sothebys
The 1905
trip to Giomein included Peter Harrison, his brother... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Plains of Esdraelon 1905 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(18-Dec-2001)
The Plains
of Esdraelon (or Jezreel) extend from the Mediterranean coast to the Jordan
River in present day Israel. They are sometimes called the valley of Megiddon,
anglicised as ‘Armageddon’, the battlefield in the New Testament
where the powers of good and evil fight at the end of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Lake of Tiberias 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Special
thanks to Shannon Richardson for a link to Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc which
contained (Literature, Exhibitions and Provenance)
Literature
W. Adelson,
text, John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, New York, 1980,
n.p.,
recorded
Exhibitions
New York,
M. Knoedler & Co., Watercolors by Sargent and Brabazon,
1941, no.... | GA | igrkio |
 | David in Saul's Camp 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Reclining figures David in Saul's Camp
Date?
Charcoal on paper
This
painting goes along with the drawing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Neither one date either work, though I wonder if maybe he might have done this on
his second trip to the middle east in 1905-06?
Notes:
Sold at
Christies, Mar 04, 2003; Lot... | GA | igrkio |
 | Egyptian Water Jars 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Undated
painting, I have included it in 1905 which falls in line with his trip to that
part of the world.
This work
will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue
raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with
Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.
Bibliography
W.H.
Downes, J.S. Sargent,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Bedouins 1905 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
The power
of Sargent's watercolors is in the complexity of what matters -- the wonderful
faces of these Bedouins looking right at us. And the lush flow of color in what
doesn't matter and what our eyes don't normally pick up at first impression --
the flowing drape of their clothes. In a single painting, Sargent shows us the
the whole range and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Near the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem 1905-06 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
Notes
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Bibliography
1)
Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University
Press [page: 216]
2) Wilson,
Joy The Unknown Sargents,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Ernest Hills (1) c. 1906- 1909 Bradford City Art Gallery & Museums Bradford, UK |
Three-quarter-length
standing portrait of Mrs. Ernest Hills (d. 1932) leaning on a stone
ballustrade. She wears a white gown with black evening coat. A landscape is in
the background.
(SIRIS)
Mrs. Ernest Hills
1894
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. William George Raphael 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Three-quarter-length
seated portrait of Mrs. William George Raphael (1871-1925) leaning with her
right elbow resting on the arm of the chair in which she sits. With her right
hand she fingers a turquoise and diamond necklace. She wears a white chiffon gown.
Books are on a small round table at left.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography: ... | 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 Mrs. Phipps and Her Grandson Winston 1906 Old Westbury Gardens Old Westbury, NY |
From:
Barbara Ann Levine
bar ba n22@optonline.net
Date: Sat,
02 Apr 2005
The
painting by Sargent of Mrs. Phipps and Winston Guest is hanging in the Phipps
dining room of Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, Long Island, NY, which in
now open to the public. According to the plaque it was done in 1906.
From: SIRIS
Double
portrait of Mrs.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sir Hugh Lane 1906 Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, Ireland |
From: Hugh Lane Gallery
Hugh Lane
(1875-1915) is best-known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern
Art in 1908 (the first known public gallery of modern art in the world) and for
his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland. Born in County Cork
on 9 November 1875, Lane was brought up in Cornwall in England. He... | GA | igrkio |
 | Maud Coats 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Maud Glen
Coats, Duchess of Wellington (d. 1946).
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 514.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration: ... | GA | igrkio |
 | Katherine Lewis 1906 City Museum & Art Gallery, Congreve St. Birmingham, UK |
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 519.
Gidley, M.,
"A Catalogue of American paintings in British Public Collections,"
[Exeter] University of Exeter, American Arts Documentation Centre,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Gladys Vanderbilt 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Gladys
Moore Vanderbilt (27 August 1886 – 29 January 1965) was seventh and
youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the
New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in
New York City, and their summer cottage, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
Richard Morris Hunt
... | GA | igrkio |
 | Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts 1906 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
From: Douglas Snyder
(das
2@erols.com)
Date: Fri,
1 Aug 2003
One of the
most outstanding portraits (in my opinion) is Sargent's
portrait of Frederick Sleigh Robert (The Earl of Kandahar). Sargent
captures the essence of this career military man (who served in India,
Afghanistan and South Africa) in a most masculine portrayal of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Four Doctors 1906 The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, MD |
The
painting of the Four Doctors was of the lead teaching physicians of the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine. They were: Dr. William H. Welch, the first Dean of
the school, Dr. William Osler, Dr. William S. Halsted and Dr. Howard A. Kelly.
Mary Elizabeth Garrett
1904
The
painting was commissioned by the board of trustees... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
