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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
- John Singer Sargent