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Mrs. Charles F. St.Clair Anstruther-Thomson (nee Agnes) 1889 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
- John Singer Sargent