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 | Mrs J. W. Crombie 1898 | 
From: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
The sitter,
Minna Wason was the wife of James Wiiliam Crombie M.P. Her husband was a first
cousin of Theodore Crombie. Minna Crombie, who came from Ayrshire, was a noted
philanthropist. After her only son was killed in the First World War, she took
up braille and translated many books for the blind. Sargent... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs Ralph Curtis (Lisa de Wolfe Colt) 1898 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH |
From:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
There is
another painting by Sargent that I did not see on your site. I'm not sure if it is listed anywhere on
the web, but I thought you might like to see it. It has been on exhibition in the
Cleveland Museum of Art since it was acquired in 1998. It is not a well-known
piece because it hasn't left the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer 1898 New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Asher Wertheimer c. 1898 |
Asher Wertheimer
1898
Notes:
Bibliography
David
McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956),
p. 130, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
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 | Mrs. Charles F. St.Clair Anstruther-Thomson (nee Agnes) 1889 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Charles Hunter (nee Mary Smyth) 1898 |
Mary Smyth
married Charles Hunter in 1875 along with his huge fortune in mining interests.
She had an eccentric sister, Ethel Smyth (whom John would draw in 1901). The
two women were quite the pair. Mary was not to be outdone by her sister -- or
at least she tried. It was her 'sacred duty,' her sister would reflect in her
1940 memoir "What... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Charles Huntington (nee' Jane Hudson Sparkes later: Lady Huntington) 1898 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY |
Note:
Bibliography:
"American
Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 932.
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2002, no. 361.
"The
Brooklyn Museum, American... | GA | igrkio |
 | Octavia Hill 1898 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | Pauline Astor c. 1898 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino San Marino, CA |
"This
is Sargent's largest and most impressive Full-Length Portrait in a Landscape
Setting" (The Huntington's
description on notecards and posters)
From: Traditional Fine Art Online
"Pauline
Astor (1880-1970), who sat for her portrait by Sargent, was the eldest daughter
of the Amencan financier William Waldorf Astor, who emigrated from New... | GA | igrkio |
 | Senator Calvin Brice 1898 July 18th-28th Allen County Historical Society Lima, OH |
Senator
Calvin Stewart, (b 1845 - d 1898) Served as chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, 1889; then one term as Senator from 1891-1897 as a Democrat from
Ohio, did not run for reelection. Died five months after this painting in New
York December 15, 1898.
(bioguide.congress.gov
10-19-08)
Description: ... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
