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 | Woman with Collie 1890's Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Sketch of Boats on Lake Como Graphite pencil on paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Self-Portrait, 1892 1892 National Academy of Design New York, NY | 
Description:
Self-portrait
of John Singer Sargent, his body turned to the left,
and his head turned to face the viewer. He wears a light suit with a white
shirt, dark tie, and a hat.
(SIRIS)
Notes:
Bibliography:
National
Academy of Design, 1971: Registration Records.
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
 | Rowing Lake Como ( Bellagio) c. 1890-1900 |
Notes:
My
gratitude to Stephanie for letting me know about this
painting on the net.
As of 2/24/2002
it was offered for sale at Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc.
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 | Portrait Sketch of a Seated Woman c. 1890-1900 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Note:
The NYU Grey Gallery had an exhibition of this drawing,
among others, August 31 – October 30, 1999 called "John Singer
Sargent, Draughtsman: Works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art". The image
online at NYU, I believe is inverted.
Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, Maryland, a
friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Major George Conrad Roller c. 1892? Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Prophets:
Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, Hosea
(on West Wall)
Boston Public
Library Mural
Sargent
enlisted the help of a number of his friends to model for head studies for the
Boston mural -- Frieze of Prophets. It was a fun thing for him to put the
likeness of his friends in the murals. He had done it when he was painting... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Louis Alexander Fagan 1893 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Louis
Alexander Fagan (1846-1903) became chief assistant to the department of Prints
and Drawings at the British Museum under George William Reid and Sir Cidney
Colvin respectively. He was hired in June 1869 by Sir Anthony Panizzi, the
Chief Librarian of the British Museum Library and during his twenty-five year
professional career he wrote... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. John J. Chapman (Elizabeth "Bessie" Winthrop Chanler) Gift of Chanler A. Chapman |
Bessie Chanler’s inner strength comes clearly through Sargent's portrait of this feminine, yet resilient woman.
Although bred into a wealthy established American family, her life was not free
of tragedy. She shouldered much of the responsibility for her seven younger
siblings after her mother's early death; and after developing a decease of the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Hugh Hammersley 1892-93 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Frederick Mead c. 1893 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT |
Waist-length
seated portrait of Mrs. Frederick Mead (Mary Eliza Scribner 1822-1897) wearing
a black dress and a purple cap.
(SIRIS)
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. 294.
"A
checklist of... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
