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 | 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 |
 | Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth after Luca della Robbia possibly 1897 |
Luca della Robbia
Italian sculptor, Florentine school
(1399/1400 - 1482)
John Singer Sargent
Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth
c. 1450
Meeting of Mary and
Elisabeth after Luca della Robbia
possibly 1897
The
sculpture was sketched by John Singer Sargent on one of his trips to... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
The Stokes
were young expatriate Americans living in Paris while Mr. Stokes was studying
Architecture. They were from New York.
Sketch of Mrs.
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
1897
Sargent at
Harvard
Fogg Art
Museum
graphite
30 x 19 3/8 in
(actual), Framed 34 3/8 x 23 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
See... | 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 |
 | Mrs. George Swinton (nee Elizabeth "'Elsie" Ebsworth) 1897 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL |
From: "A Numerous and Fashionable
Audience: The Story of Elsie Swinton,"
by David Greer
Posted: Wed, 30 Oct 2002
Elizabeth
"'Elsie" Swinton (1874-1966), nee Ebsworth, was a prominent society
lady in Edwardian England, who in 1906 took the unusual step (for a person of
her social rank in those days) of becoming a professional singer,... | GA | igrkio |
 | William Rothenstein 1897 The Australian National University Canberra, Australia |
Sir William
Rothenstein (1872-1945) was an British lithographer. He was a member of the New
English Art Club with Sargent. Is Sargent drawing William drawing himself
(below) which would appear in "English Portraits: A Series of Lithographed
Drawings".
William Rothenstein
John Singer Sargent
1897
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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 |
 | 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 |
 | Mrs George Batten Singing c. 1897 Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, UK |
From: Matt Davies
<matt
davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002
Mrs. Batten
(nee Mabel Veronica Hatch, c. 1857-1915) was the daughter of an upper-class
military family, and grew up for a time in India. There she met and married
George Batten, an older military officer, and later they moved to London. In... | 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 |
- John Singer Sargent
