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Emma (Margot), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

1897
Chalk
54.9 x 39.7 cm (21 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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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...
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Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo

1896
Oil on Canvas
34.5 x 28.5 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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...
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Countess Clary Aldringen (Therese Kinsky)

1896
Oil on canvas
228.5 x 122 cm (90 x 48 in)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries

New York, NY

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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....
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Colorful Pavements, Sicily

Watercolor
10 x 14 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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...
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Caterina Vlasto (or Catherine)

1897
Oil on canvas
148.6 x 85.4 cm (58 1/2 x 33 5/8 in.)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

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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)...
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