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 | Henry Cabot Lodge 1890 | 
Lodge began
his career in Congress in 1887, armed with all the confidence that his
distinguished New England ancestry, Harvard education, and wide circle of
influential friends could bestow. A power in the Senate and in the Republican
Party, he was noted for his scorn of the alliance between big business and
corrupt politicians. Close friends... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Washington Vanderbilt 1890 |
This guy is
a real interesting and eccentric character. He was a supporter of Sargent and commissioned a number of portraits, this being
one of them. In many ways George Vanderbilt defined his generation of what Mark
Twain would call the Gilded Age.
From his
inheritance from his parents he would set out to build the largest private home
in the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Edwin Booth 1890 |
From:
F. Clason Kyle
(c k yle@knology.net)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004
I would
very much like to see the portrait of Edwin Booth that Sargeant
painted. It is in the Players [Club] in N.Y.. and Mr. Booth "played" the Springer Opera House
here in Columbus in 1876.
The Players
Club at No. 16
Gramercy Park (1845). is located at the
former home... | GA | igrkio |
 | Beatrice Goelet 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2002, no. 239.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
