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 | Caterina Vlasto (or Catherine) 1897 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. | 
Caterina
(or Catherine) Vlasto, born. 30 July 1875 Londen, UK, the eighth of nine
children and died 3 June 1899
London, UK. She was the second
youngest of her siblings:
Calliope
(Alexandre) (1862-1933)
Antoine
(Alexandre) (1863-1933)
Eustratius (Alexandre)
(1864-1937)
Mary
(Alexandre) (1867-1914)
Etienne
(Alexandre)... | GA | igrkio |
 | Colorful Pavements, Sicily Watercolor Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sargent's
interest in the beautiful pavement of Italy is really quite fascinating.
Although this particular watercolor is not dated (by the source I had) he was
in Sicily to see the Cathedral in Palermo (according to Olson) in 1897. The
following year (1898) when he went to Venice, he painted the remarkable work
titled "The Pavement" at the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Countess Clary Aldringen (Therese Kinsky) 1896 Hirschl & Adler Galleries New York, NY |
Notes:
Painting
mentioned in Edmund Swinglehurst's John Singer Sargent, 2001.
Exhibitions:
Paris Salon
of 1898, Paris, 1898, no. 1115.
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 |
 | Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo 1896 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Wendy & Gordon Hawksley
gw @ wha wksley. fsnet.co. uk
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002
This
painting is said to have been a wedding present from JSS to his childhood friend,
Benjamin del Castillo.
From: Wilfredo
Fernandez
W Fe rn andez@miami-airport.com
Date: Dec 19, 2005
I am a
member of the family of Benjamin Nunez del... | GA | igrkio |
 | Emma (Margot), Countess of Oxford and Asquith 1897 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
Margot
Asquith (nee' Tennant) 1864 to 1945, wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the
one-time Prime Minster of England between 1909 and 1916. She was a member of
"The Souls," an important literary and aesthetic group in England.
Sargent
also drew her children and again herself later:
Anthony
Asquith
c. 1908
(son to... | GA | igrkio |
 | Head of Christ c. 1897 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Henry G. Marquand 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Henry G
Marquand, was second president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting
was done in Sargent's London studio in the summer of 1897 and was commissioned
by the Trustees of the Met. Henry was seventy-eight when this was done. Sargent
had painted his wife in 1887 which was Sargent's first portrait commission
within the United... | GA | igrkio |
 | Jean, Wife of Colonel Ian Hamilton 1896 |
From: The
Tate Gallery
Jean
Miller, eldest daughter of Sir John Muir, 1st Baronet of Deanston,
Perthshire, married Sir Ian Hamilton in 1887. She
died in 1941. Lady Hamilton was noted for her beauty and accomplishments.
(Tate
Gallery)
Notes:
Exhibitions:
R.A., 1896
(129); Copley Hall, Boston, February–March 1899 (23); 100th... | GA | igrkio |
 | Johannes Wolff 1897 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Mrs. Alice Christiana (Thompson) Meynell,
The Work of John S. Sargent, R. A. (London, England / New York NY, 1903), repr.
full page, b/w (unpaginated)
William
Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work (Boston MA, 1925), p. 183
Evan
Charteris, John Sargent (New York, NY, 1927), p. 266
Helen
Thompson and Edward... | GA | igrkio |
 | Joseph Chamberlain ("Joe") 1896 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
From Wikipedia
Joseph
Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British
businessman, politician, and statesman.
In his
early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a
campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He
later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
