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 | Mrs. Charles Huntington (nee' Jane Hudson Sparkes later: Lady Huntington) 1898 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | 
Note:
Bibliography:
"American
Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 932.
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2002, no. 361.
"The
Brooklyn Museum, American... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Charles Hunter (nee Mary Smyth) 1898 |
Mary Smyth
married Charles Hunter in 1875 along with his huge fortune in mining interests.
She had an eccentric sister, Ethel Smyth (whom John would draw in 1901). The
two women were quite the pair. Mary was not to be outdone by her sister -- or
at least she tried. It was her 'sacred duty,' her sister would reflect in her
1940 memoir "What... | 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 |
 | The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant 1899 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
The sisters
are Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, all daughter of the Honorable
Percy Wyndham. The painting was done in their London home on Belgrave Square.
Sargent has arranged the women so that their mother, Madeline, is looking down
upon them from the full portrait by George Frederick Watt.
Lady Elcho
is the one behind. She is Mary... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of the Hon Charles Alfred Lister "Mug" 1899 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The Hon. Charles Alfred Lister, son of Lord
Ribblesdale whom Sargent painted in 1902. The drawing was reproduced as the
frontispiece of the book which Ribblesdale later wrote as a memorial after
Charles was killed in World War I: "Charles Lister: Letters and
Recollections with a Memoir by his Father" (1917).
On the
tissue guard covering the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears) 1899 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
From: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
This
portrait represents John Singer Sargent’s lifelong friend Sarah Sears, a
photographer and patron of the arts in Boston. Her alert pose . . . [captures],
as one critic wrote, “the nervous tension of the
age.”
(Museum of
Fine Arts)
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 | Portrait of Leon Delafosse c. 1899 Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA |
Léon
Delafosse (1874 - 1951) was talented and gifted pianist and composer. He came
from very humble beginnings but rose to the highest levels of Society. He
studied piano and at the early age of 13 won his first prize. He spent years
performing in the drawing room of the Countess Saussine.
From there
he was introduced to the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Hon. Victoria Stanley 1899 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
The SIRIS
listing has the painting owned by Derby, Lord, Knowsley, England, with
reference to McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of
Fine Arts, 1956.
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me a note regarding this image.
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 | Miss Carey Thomas Oil on canvas Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA |
"The
man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid? It is
the next step forward on the path to the sunrise . . . "
(1908
Address to the North American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo)
M. Carey
Thomas (1857-1935) was a pioneer for women's education after having overcome
incredible obstacles to become educated... | GA | igrkio |
 | Charles Arthur Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen 1899 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Charles
Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, (b. 10 November 1832 - d. 10 August
1900) was appointed Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 1894 which (at
the time) was the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales,
after the Lord Chancellor. (wikipedia.org)
His title
progression was legal counsel, then Baron Russell, and... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
