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 | Lady Astor 1909 National Trust Cliveden, UK | 
Lady Astor
- Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess (1879-1964) .
She was
born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, an
American daughter of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne of Danville, Virginia. Her first
husband was Robert Gould Shaw; they were divorced in 1903 and then she moved to
England. Three years later she married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952).... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lady Cynthia Charteris 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Cynthia Charteris (1909), daughter of
Hugo and
Mary Elcho (later the Earl and Countess of Wemyss),
both members of the
Souls.
Mary (Cynthia's mother) was painted by Sargent in
'The Wyndham Sisters'. Her bother was Hugo Charteris.
Cynthia
later married the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lady Desborough (Ethel 'Ettie' Grenfell) 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Here is
Ethel ('Ettie') Grenfell, later Lady Desborough, wife of William Grenfell,
later Lord Desborough. The drawing
is from 1909. The Grenfells home,
Taplow Court, was 'next door' to the Astors' Cliveden estate. Ettie and Nancy Astro were... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lights and Shadows, Corfu 1909 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
"Sargent
once confessed that enormous views and huge skies did not tempt him. Many of
his outdoor watercolor sketches reflect this outlook, for he tended to focus on
objects bathed in light and color rather than broad panoramic views. In this
simple scene of a hut in the park of the royal villa, Monrepos, on Corfu, where
he was staying in 1909,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Olive Trees at Corfu 1909 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field | GA | igrkio | |
 | Olive Trees, Corfu 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Olive Trees, Corfu (watercolor) 1909 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | GA | igrkio | |
 | Olive Trunk 1909? Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Oranges at Corfu c. 1909 Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA |
View looking down toward a terrace balustrade with a grove of orange
trees growing just beyond, and the deep blue water of the Adriatic Sea visible
over the treetops.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography:
Johns,
Elizabeth, "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape
Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum," Worcester, MA: Worcester... | GA | igrkio |
 | Rio dei Mendicanti c. 1909 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN |
From Indianapolis Museum of Art (9/5/08)
"Sargent
drew and painted, the accidental things that caught
his eye, the queer and irregular shapes of dark gondolas on the canals . . .
the flash of light on the facades of palaces and the reflections on the
glittering water."
-Martin Hardie,
1930
Sargent
gave this watercolor to his friend... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
