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 | George Robert White 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 
From: Boston University Alumni Page
Date: Spring 2002
By Peter Vandermark
[George
Robert White was a] lifelong bachelor, who lived with his sister on
Commonwealth Avenue, amassed a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry. He had
come to the city as a poor boy to work in the Potter Drug and Chemical Company,
which he... | GA | igrkio |
 | Dr. Denman Waldo Ross 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
From: Biography.com
Date:
8/9/2002
Teacher,
collector; born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Harvard (B.A. 1875; M.A.
1880; Ph.D. 1880), worked under Henry Adams, and taught in the architecture and
fine arts department at Harvard beginning in 1899. He also worked in the fine
arts department of the Fogg Art Museum beginning in 1909. He... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of John W. Cummings 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
John
William Cummings, 1855-1929
A very
prominent attorney in Fall River Massachusetts (between Providence RI and New
Bedford MA) He would, I think, become a judge and served as Mayor of Fall River
in 1885, 1887 and 1888.
He was
born, we think, in Stockport, England. His parents were from Strokestown, co. Roscommon, Ireland before moving... | GA | igrkio |
 | Guy Lowell 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Guy Lowell (1870-1927) architect and landscape designer. In the mid 1890's he was chosen to
design the new Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Huntington Ave which would be
his greatest building. He also designed Lowell Lecture Hall at Harvard,
buildings at Andover Academy, Simmons College and Brown University.
He edited
several books on gardening,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Charles Martin Loeffler (1) 1917 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Charles
Martin Loeffler (1861–1935) was one of America's great composer and
violinist. From 1882 until 1903 he shared with Franz Kneisel the position of
first violinist and soloist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Near his
retirement from the Symphoney in 1903 (at the age of 42) John Singer Sargent
painted an oil of Loeffler for Isabella... | GA | igrkio |
 | Rosemary, Viscountess Ednam 1917 or 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Rosemary,
Viscountess Ednam, daughter of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, and wife of
Viscount Ednam (later Earl of Dudley).
She was killed in a tragic airplane accident.
Millicent, Duches of Sutherland
1904
(mother to... | GA | igrkio |
 | Daniel J. Nolan 1917 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Bibliography
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 580.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Kennedy
Gallery Sale Cat., the American View Art from 1770-1978.... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
