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 | Elizabeth Asquith "mug" (later Elizabeth Bibesco) 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
From: Paul Darby
darby
and joan1@yahoo.com
Date:
Sat, 22 May 2004
After 24
years my wife and I finally had a chance to visit her home in Paris from which
her daughter had recently been removed to a nursing home. We met a relative who
by chance was in town and looked around the apartment - it was a kind of shrine
to Elizabeth Asquith... | GA | igrkio |
 | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a Leon Bakst costume 1914 Collection of Flora Whitney Miller |
Léon
Bakst helped revolutionize the role of sets and costumes design in dance.
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me notes regarding this image.
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
This
drawing was... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Sir Walter Parratt "Mug" 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sir Walter Parratt (b. 1841 Huddersfield d.
1924) a premier organist of St. George's chapel, Windsor, and Master of Music
to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. The official duties of
Master of the Royal Music are few -- they normally writes the
occasional small work to commemorate a Royal occasion.
He was born
the son of... | GA | igrkio |
 | Douglas Vickers 1914 |
Douglas
Vickers (1861-1937) son of Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers. He had known Sargent
since he was 23 when his father commissioned him to paint his sisters in the
Misses Vickers.
When
Sargent paints him here, Douglas is 53 years old. He married Katherine Chetwynd
and they had four children: Oliver (1898-1928), Felicite (1901- died soon
after),... | GA | igrkio |
 | George Nathaniel, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1914 Royal Geographical Society London, UK |
From: Kris Radford
(rad ford k@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003
Grace Elvina
1925
(second wife to
George Nathaniel)
George
Nathaniel Curzon, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 -1925) was born
January 11th, at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, he was an administrator,
politician, and explorer. As an administrator,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Rt. Hon. Harcourt Johnstone Portrait of a Young Man 1914 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 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
