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 | Betty Wertheimer 1908 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. | 
Ena and Betty, Daughters of
Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer
1901
Betty was
featured in a double portrait with her sister seven years previously.
From: Hugh Wilding
<h st jw @ line one.net>
Date:
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Dear
Natasha,
I was
re-visiting [your site] recently and I noticed that you stated... | GA | igrkio |
 | Almina Daughter of Asher Wertheimer 1908 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(05-Sep-2001)
This
painting was the last in the series of Sargent’s portraits of the
Wertheimer family. Almina was Asher Wertheimer’s fifth daughter. She is
shown in an exotic, ‘oriental’ costume, including an ivory-white
Persian dress and a turban entwined with pearls. The white and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Arthur Balfour 1908 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
From: Artfund
Arthur
James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (Tory Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905).
Balfour was
one of the pivotal figures in British politics from the late 1880s to the late
1920s. In 1879, he made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of
Philosophic Doubt and was the most admired of the group of young,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Louise, Duchess of Connaught 1908 The Royal Collection Berkshire , UK |
Princess
Louisa Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia; H.R.H. the Duchess of
Connaught and Strathearn (1860-1917)
She was a
German princess and she married the
3rd son, 7th child of Queen Victoria, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. Her
husand served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. She died in
1917 at her london home... | GA | igrkio |
 | Arthur, Duke of Connaught 1908 The Royal Collection Berkshire , UK |
Prince
Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May
1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a the
3rd son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from
1911 to 1916. He was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of
Sussex in 1874.
Duke and Duchess... | GA | igrkio |
 | Cora, Countess of Strafford 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Cora Smith
(d. 1932) married first to Samuel James Colgate; secondly, Henry William John
Byng, fourth Earl of Strafford in 1898; thirdly, Martyn Thomas Kennard.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University... | GA | igrkio |
 | William Butler Yeats 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. He won the Nobel
prize for literature in 1923.
He was born
in Dublin, the son of John Butler Yeats, a portrait painter.
William Butler
Yeats
1900
(the artist's son)
William
studied art himself for three years until 1889 when his first collection of
poems... | GA | igrkio |
 | Anthony Asquith c. 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Anthony
Asquith "Puffin" (1902-1968), youngest son of Herbert Henry and
Margot Asquith, Count and Countess of Oxford.
His father
was the British Prime Minister and he grew up in 10 Downing Street from when he
was six years old to fifteen (1908-1916).
To the
dismay of his political father, however, he didn’t take after his half
siblings who... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Asquith 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Although
the drawing was not dated by Christies it could have possbily been done at the
time Sargent drew her son around 1908
See
Sargent's earlier drawing:
Anthony
Asquith
c. 1908
(son to Margot)
Emma (Margot), Countess
of Oxford and Asquith
1897
Chalk
Notes:
Sold
Christies,
27... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mildred Carter 1908 |
Mildred
Carter was the daughter of American diplomat John Ridgeley Carter and Alice
Morgan Carter. Two years after this painting she would marry Viscount Acheson
in 1910, becoming Countess of Gosford on her husband's accession to the title
as fifth Earl in 1922. (Christies)
John had
first painted her father in 1901:
John Ridgeley
... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
