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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 | |
Cottage at Fairford, Gloucestershire 1892 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Adelson
Galleries
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002
Margaret
Stickney, wife of the American artist William Sargeant
Kendall and herself a weekend painter, was working on a watercolor outdoors in Fairford, Gloucestershire in 1892. According to the family
lore, John Singer Sargent attempted to instruct Ms.
Stickney. He took the watercolor from... | GA | igrkio | |
A Country Road in Winter 1892 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Charles
Merrill Mount dated this painting and thinks it probably was done at Fairford
Note:
Sold at
Christie's New York 11/29/2000; Lot 51; $415,000
| GA | igrkio | |
Mannikin in the Snow c. 1891-93 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | 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 | |
John Alfred Parsons Millet 1892 |
Frank
Millet's youngest son named after two of his close friends: John Singer Sargent
and Alfred Parsons.
Portrait of
Laurence Millet
1887
(brother to John
Alfred Parsons Millet)
Notes:
Exhibitions
Exhibited
August 26, 2001 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children;... | GA | igrkio | |
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw 1892-93 |
In late
1892 John began work on the portrait of Lady Agnew, commissioned by Andrew Noel
Agnew, a barrister who had inherited the baronetcy and estates of Lochnaw in
Galloway. The sitter was to be of his young wife, Gertrude Vernon (1865-1932).
The
painting was done in a "high key" and carefully finished. "It is
a careful portrait, free of any... | 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 | |
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 | |
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1893 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Painted for
Hercules himself by Sargent. Not sure if this was a gift or if Hercules
commissioned it. Some seven years later he would paint him again which Sargent
kept for his own collection.
Hercules Brabazon
1900
Note:
Dated by Charles
Merrill Mount
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent