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Cathedral, Granada, Spain

c. 1912
Watercolor, pen and brown ink over graphite on off-white paper
52.2 x 38.4 cm

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Notes: Bibliography Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods (London, England, 1925), no. 14 John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
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Miss Sybil Sassoon, later Marchioness of Cholmondeley ("Mug")

1912
Black chalk
Unknown size

Witt Library

London, UK

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Note Exhibitions   1916, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened June, 1916. Lady Sassoon 1907   Sibyl Sasson-Countess of Rocksavage  1913 The Countess of Rocksavage,   later Marchioness of Cholmondeley  1922  
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Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton

1912
Charcoal on paper
61 cm hight

Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery

London, UK

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After the war, Captain Swinton was one of the instrumental men in establishing the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle Mrs. George Swinton   1897  (wife of Captain George Swinton) Captain George  Swinton Photo   
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Lord Buckhurst (9th Earl De La Warr)

1912
Charcoal

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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From: "Will Buckhurst"  <will buck hurst@hotmail.com>  Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 Natasha, The drawing is still privately owned by a member of my family. In answer to your questions, the sitter is better known as the 9th Earl De La Warr (whose family gave its name to the US State). This is the title he succeeded to on his father's...
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Helen Sears 1912

1912
Charcoal
23 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Sargent had painted her as a little girl 17 years previous: Helen Sears 1895   Notes:  Special thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me this image in hard copy.
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Lady Gwendoline Churchill (Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie) (1885-1941)

1912
Charcoal on paper
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Spouse of The Hon. John Strange Spencer-Churchill. Duke of Marlborough Family (9th Duke) 1905 (related someway through Lady Gwendoline's husband)  
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Robert Henry Benson

1912
Charcoal
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Robert Henry Benson (1850-1929) of London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex was a banker. He served as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London and was an avid collector, particularly of the Italian renaissance. He was also a patron of Sargent's Notes:  Special thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery,...
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Kenneth Grahame

1912
Charcoal
Unknown size

Bodleian Library

Oxford, UK

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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) born in Edinburgh, he entered the Bank of England in 1879 and would become its Secretary in 1899. In his spare time, he wrote short stories and articles and would complete the novel  "The Wind in The Willows" in 1908, set in the idyllic English countryside. The work would established his international reputation as a...
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Mrs. Godfrey William Paget Mellor (Norah Alston)

1912
Charcoal
61 x 48.2 cm (24 x 19 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes: Special thanks to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley, of Sheffield, England, friends of the JSS Gallery, for sending me headsup on this drawing.  Bibliography D. McKibben, Sargent's Boston with an Essay and a Biographical Summary and a complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, 1956, p. 109.  Sale Sold at Christies, London, Nov...
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Mrs. Reginald Grenville Eves (nee Bertha Papillon)

1912
Charcoal on paper
60.3 by 47.6 cm (23 3/4 by 18 3/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Note: Bibliography David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: with an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 95 Sale Sold at Sothebys, New York, 19 May 04, Session 1,  10:15 AM,  Sale N07997   lot 9, estimated 30,000—50,000 USD  from the collection of  Mrs....
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