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 | Henry James Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | 
Henry James
(1843-1916), an expatriate American writer who settled in England and
eventually became an British citizen.
He is considered by most to be one of the great english literary writers
and among his best known works is The Ambassadors.
James lived
for a period in Paris but hated it and finally found his home in London and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Henry James (charcoal) 1913 Royal Library at Windsor Castle Windsor, UK |
Henry James
1913
Oil
Sargent
presented this charcoal portrait to King George V in 1916, two weeks after
James's death (James died in July). James had been given The Order of Merit by
King Edward VII previously, and this drawing has since been kept with a
collection of other honorees.
The Order
was founded by King Edward... | GA | igrkio |
 | Idle Sails 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Karer See 1914 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | Lady Diana Manners 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
Matt Da
vies@jssgallery.org
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Lady Diana
Manners is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. In 1919 she married Duff Cooper (later
Viscount Norwich).
In June of
1916 the drawing was exhibted with the the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
at the Grafton Galleries which was... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lago Di Garda, San Vigilio, Italy c 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Lena Kontorovich 1914 Royal Northern College of Music Manchester, UK |
From:
Sarah Wickham
(sa
rah. wick ham@rncm.ac.uk)
Date: 6/8/2004
I'm the
archivist at Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK). We have a pencil sketch by Sargent of a former violin student, Lena Kontorovich. It's not an amazing piece of art but...
It was
owned by her family and given to us in the 1990s. Signed "To Mlle... | GA | igrkio |
 | Moorish Courtyard 1913 or 1912 Forbes Magazine Collection New York, NY |
See Wilfrid
de Glehn's and Sargent's Spanish Courtyard's in Juxtaposition.
Sargent's Moorish Courtyard
de Glehn's Courtyard in Granada, Spain
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
The
painting was offered at Christie's,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mountain Scene: The Tyrol 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Sold
Sothebys; Session 1; May 21, 2003, 2:00 PM; Sale N07904, lot 142; $42,000 USD
Offered for
sale 5/1//2001; Adelson Galleries,
New York.
Literature
1945 --
Exhibition Catalogue; Watercolors by Brabzon and Sargent
1944 Exhibition Catalogue Paintings by
Important Contemporary & 19th Century Artists, Watercolors by... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs Claude Beddington 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From:
Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Mar 30, 2006
From Mrs.
Claude Beddington, All That I Have Met, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1929, p. 151-7:
[Biographical Note: The author was born
Frances Ethel, daughter of Francis Berry Homan-Mulock
of Ballycumber House, County Offaly,
Ireland. She married Col. Claude Beddington.... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
