1892-1893

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Self-Portrait, 1892

1892
Oil on canvas
53.3 x 43.2 cm (21 x 17 in.)

National Academy of Design

New York, NY

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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...
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Cottage at Fairford, Gloucestershire

1892
Watercolor on paper
9 x 12 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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...
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A Country Road in Winter

1892
Oil
25.2 x 30 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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
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Mannikin in the Snow

c. 1891-93
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Portrait of Major George Conrad Roller

c. 1892?
Oil
16.5 x 17 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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...
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John Alfred Parsons Millet

1892
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 24 1/8 in

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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;...
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Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

1892-93
Oil on canvas
124.5 x 99.7 cm (49 x 39 1/4 in.)

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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...
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Mrs. Frederick Mead

c. 1893
Oil on canvas
67.9 x 51.8 cm (26 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, CT

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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...
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Mrs. John J. Chapman (Elizabeth "Bessie" Winthrop Chanler)

Gift of Chanler A. Chapman
Oil on canvas
125.4 x 102.9 cm (49 3/8 x 40 1/2 in)

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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...
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Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

1893
Oil on canvas
73.3 x 43.1 cm (28 7/8 x 17 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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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...
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