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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 | |
Portrait of Gordon Fairchild 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Village Children 1890 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT | GA | igrkio | ||
Still Life with Daffodils 1890 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT | GA | igrkio | ||
Mrs. Augustus Hemenway 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Waist-length
portrait of Mrs. Augustus Hemenway nee Harriet Dexter Lawrence (1858-1960)
wearing a black dress and holding a white flower.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2002, no.... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Peter Chardon Brooks (nee Sarah Lawrence) 1890 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA |
From: Antiques and Fine Art
Mrs. Peter
Chardon Brooks, whose maiden name was Sarah Lawrence, lived from 1845 to 1915.
She was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Appleton and noted manufacturer and
philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, for whose family the Massachusetts city of
Lawrence is named.
In 1890, Sargent painted this portrait of Mrs.... | GA | igrkio | |
Miss Eleanor Brooks (Mrs. Richard Middlecott Saltonstall) 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Miss
Eleanor Brooks was painted in 1890
in West
Medford, Massachusetts. At this time Sargent also painted a bust length
likeness of Eleanor’s father Peter Chardon Brooks, and a large seated
portrait of Eleanor’s mother Sarah (both in private collections). Sargent
may have known members of the Brooks family prior to receiving... | GA | igrkio | |
Mrs. Edward L Davis and her Son, Livingston Davis 1890 |
Mr. Edward
L Davis was a former mayor of Worcester
From L.A. County Museum of
Art
Sargent
spent June of 1890 in Worcester, Massachusetts, executing what proved to be
among the most important of numerous portrait commissions from New York and
Boston clients. His subjects, the socially prominent Mrs. Edward Livingston
Davis and her young son,... | GA | igrkio | |
Opera Scene 1890 | GA | igrkio | ||
Portrait of Benjamin Kissam 1890 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Barridoff
Galleries
Estimate:
$40000/60000
This
portrait, which was shown at the Sargent Loan
Exhibition at Copley Hall in Boston 1899 will be
included in the forthcoming Volume II of the catalogue raisonné
by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray in
collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff. It has descended in the family... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent