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Sketchbook (Carnation/ Lily) Robert Louis Stevenson 1880-1885 |
Notes:
Sketchbook
measures 255 x 350 mm., individual sheets are approx. 247 x 345 mm.
The pages
are numbered in brown ink in the top right hand corner. Page eight is missing/
has been removed from the sketchbook. The condition of the sketchbook is fragile,
and many of the pages are loose. In an unpublished Harvard course paper, Anne
van Dijkum... | GA | igrkio | |
Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife August 1885 |
Robert
Louis Stevenson is pacing and his wife Fanny is seated in background to the
right of the door. By and large, the critical review was mixed about this
painting. They thought the composition odd and the depiction of Stevenson
strange and unflattering, just as some people had said about Daughters of
Edward Darley Boit (1882). But... | GA | igrkio | |
Terra Gosse 1885 |
Terra Gosse
and her father, Edmund Gosse, was part of the Broadway colony.
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Sold
Christie's; 12/4/92; Lot 6; $242,000
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Dorothy Barnard 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Dorothy Barnard (1) 1885-6 |
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
1885-86
Portrait of Dorothy Barnard
1889
(3-4 years later)
Polly Barnard
(A.K.A Girl in White Muslin)
1889
(3-4 years later)
Exhibitions
1916, Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened
June, 1916.
John... | GA | igrkio | |
Polly Barnard 1885-6 | GA | igrkio | ||
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885-1886 |
Conceived
under the most unusual of circumstances, and nurtured in a remarkable setting
at Broadway, this painting is overwhelmingly held out by the public -- then as
well as today -- to be the most favored painting of all his work. It is
universally believed to be one of his masterpieces. Carnation, Lily, Lily,
Rose, the title lifted from the... | GA | igrkio | |
Self-Portrait in Profile Graphite c. 1885-1890 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Exhibition
of Drawings by John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Grand Central Art Galleries (New
York NY, 1928), repr.
David
McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956),
p. 122, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
Trevor
Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent... | GA | igrkio | |
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Harrison (nee Helen Smith) 1886 |
From: Tate Gallery
Heather Birchall; December 2001
. . . [Sargent] may have been introduced to the cousins Robert and
Peter Harrison by Alma Strettell. The future wife of
Peter Harrison, Strettel was a close friend of Sargent and, in 1877, he had
illustrated her book, Spanish and Italian Folk Songs. Mrs
Robert Harrison, née Helen Smith... | GA | igrkio | |
Sir Edmund Gosse 1886 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Sir Edmund Gosse, knighted much later in life (1849-1928), Poet and
writer; son of Philip Henry Gosse. He was born Sept. 21, 1849, London, Eng. and
died May 16, 1928, London.
He was an
English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to
English readers.
Gosse... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent