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![]() | Mrs. Douglas Dick (Isabelle Parrott) 1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
Brigadier Archibald Campbell Douglas
1886
(husband to Isabelle)
Notes:
Sold
Christie's; 12/3/1993; Lot 46; $772,500
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Date:
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![]() | Brigadier General Archibald Campbell Douglas 1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
Mrs. Douglas Dick
(Isabelle Parrott)
1886
(wife to Archibald)
Note:
Offered at
Sotheby's New York, not sold; 5/24/2000; Lot 50; Estimated $450,000-$650,000
Sold at
Spanierman Gallery date unknown
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![]() | A Rose Trellis (Roses at Oxfordshire) c.1886 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
![]() | The Birthday (Fete Familiale) 1887 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN | ![]()
From: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
[This]
depicts the family of the well-known French artists Albert Besnard (1849-1934)
and his wife Charlotte Dubray (1855-1931), whom Sargent had befriended by 1883.
(Minneapolis
Institute of Arts)
Paul Albert Besnard
Madame Besnard
1884
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Mrs. William Playfair (nee Emily Kitson, 1841-1916) 1887 Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens San Marino, CA | ![]()
From: Traditional Fine Art Online
Mrs.
William Playfair was exhibited to great acclaim at
the Royal Academy in 1887 and at the 1888 Paris Salon. The sitter (nee Emily Kitson, 1841-1916) is shown wearing a sumptnous
yellow satin gown and a fur-lined, dark green velvet
cloak. Set against an abstract background of deep red, she is ready to... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Portrait of Laurence Millet 1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
He was the
son of Francis Davis Millet whom Sargent knew from Broadway. Laurence Millet
(1884-1945) would become an attorney and practiced in New York. He was educated
at Harvard.
John Alfred Parsons
Millet
1892
(brother to
Laurence Millet)
Notes:
See letter
from Laurence Millet's Grandson:
David
Laurence... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | The Late Major E C Harrison as a Boy 1887 | ![]()
Although
the Fogg doesn't date the work, the very unusual nature of the painting with
the heavy halo effect may put in
line with some of the drawings he did for Alma Strettell's book Spanish and
Italian Folk Songs
Spanish Madonna
1887
Bibliography
John Singer
Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist,... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Spanish Madonna 1887 | GA | igrkio | |
![]() | St. Teresa of Avila 1887 | GA | igrkio | |
![]() | Robert Louis Stevenson 1887 Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati, OH | ![]()
This last
of the three portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sargent was commissioned by
the Boston banker Charles Fairchild as a gift for his wife Elizabeth Nelson
Fairchild.
Robert Louis
Stevenson and His Wife
1885
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- John Singer Sargent