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Portrait of L. A. Harrison, Esquire

c. 1910
Pencil on paper
35.6 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Note: Exhibitions Society of Portrait Painters, no. 168 London, England, National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, 1940, no. 524 Bibliography David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: with an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, Massachusetts,1956, p. 100 Sale Sold at Sothebys,...
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Blanche Marchesi

1910
Charcoal on paper mounted on board
62.9 x 48.3 cm (24 3/4 x 19 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: www.bach-cantatas.com Blanche Marchesi, (de Castrone) 1863-1940,  was an opera singer/teacher (Soprano) She was the daughter of the distinguished Italian baritone and teacher Salvatore Marchesi de Castrorie (1822-1908) and the famous German mezzo-soprano and pedagogue Mathilde (née Graumann) Marchesi de Castrone (1821-1913). After...
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Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus"

possibly 1910
Watercolor over graphite
36.5 x 22.8 cm (14 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Cellini's "Perseus" is located at Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. He would visit this area a number of times and would do many sketches and paintings of "perseus" from just about every possible vantage and medium. Perseus, Florence Statue of Perseus by Night Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence c 1902-1908 ...
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Sybil, Lady Eden

1910
Charcoal Sketch
Unknown size

The Right Hon. the Lord Eden of Winton PC

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From: Matt Davies   <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>    Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2002 Sybil was the wife of Sir William Eden, and mother of Elfrida Marjorie Eden (1887-1943). Marjorie [or Miss Eden] is the subject of the rare watercolor portrait you already have on your site (I believe it dates from1905).  Marjorie married Guy, Lord...
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Felicia Graham Stewart (Mrs Cockerell)

1910?
Charcoal on paper
Unknown size

Village Hall in Amesbury

Amesbury, UK

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From: Steve Milton SM  ilt on@salisbury.gov.uk Date: 29 Mar 2000 I know of a charcoal sketch of Lady Antrobus hanging in a village hall in Amesbury. Fri, 17 Sep 2004 Some time ago I promised to obtain a photo of the charcoal sketch of Mrs Cockerell.   I am not 100% sure this is the original - but I guess you will know all about it!  I...
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Viscount Knebworth

1910
Charcoal
Unknown size

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From: Matt Davies   <Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>    Date:   Fri, 21 Jun 2002   Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1903-1933) was drawn in 1910. [He would have been 8 years old at the time of this drawing.]  This portrait is from Antony (Viscount Knebworth): A Record of Youth, by his father, The Earl of...
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La Biancheria

1910
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite, with wax resist, on paper
40.3 x 52.7 cm (15 7/8 x 20 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
From: Anne Lindsay aml inds  ay@altavista.com  Date: 8 Jun 2000 07:59:06 -0700 I saw this painting [La Biancheria] at a Brooklyn museum watercolor show about 2 years ago. . . I love [this painting] because it looks deceptively simple. He had to know exactly what he wanted and how to get there before he began. I think watercolor appears to...
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Villa di Marlia: Lucca

1910
Watercolor over graphite, with wax resist
40.48 x 53.18 cm (15 15/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Villa di Marlia, Lucca: The Balustrade

1910
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil, with wax resist on paper
40 x 52 cm (15 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
This was painted in one of the villa di Marlia  near Lucca. He painted many like this in Tuscany and around Rome. He combines the elegance of the architecture with the foliage of the garden -- the post and the balustrade actually occupying a greater importance in this composition.  This simplicity and grandeur, cleanness and harmony...
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Daphne

1910
Watercolor on paper
53.3 x 40.6 cm (21 x 16 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
From: Stephanie (John Singer Sargent's Exotics)  Date: July 2000 Natasha, I couldn't find a lot of info on Daphne on the internet, so I read a few books on the artist, and only one book really talks about it in detail. Like the Villa Marlia series, the statue of Daphne was painted while Sargent was staying at the Marchese Farinola at the...
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