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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 | |
Lago Di Garda, San Vigilio, Italy c 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 | |
Karer See 1914 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | ||
Idle Sails 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | 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 | |
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 | |
Gypsy Encampment c, 1913 Addison Gallery of Art Andover, MA |
Notes
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
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Graveyard in the Tyrol (2) c. 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Graveyard in the Tyrol 1914 British Museum London, UK | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent