1885-1886

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Young Girl Wearing a White Muslin Blouse

1885
Oil on canvas
48.9 x 38.1 cm (19.25 x 15 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Whitby - Fishing Boats

1885
Oil
47.0 x 66.0 cm (18 1/2 x 26)

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The Candelabrum

1885
Oil on canvas
52.7 x 66.67 cm (20.75 x 26.25 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Terra Gosse

1885
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 48.3 cm (25 x 19 in.)

notes
Terra Gosse and her father, Edmund Gosse, was part of the Broadway colony. Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Sold Christie's; 12/4/92; Lot 6; $242,000
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Sketchbook (Carnation/ Lily) Robert Louis Stevenson

1880-1885
Mostly graphite and charcoal, and some pen and brown ink, on off-white wove paper, bound in a beige canvas sketchbook
25.5 x 35 cm (actual)

notes
Notes: Sketchbook measures 255 x 350 mm., individual sheets are approx. 247 x 345 mm. The pages are numbered in brown ink in the top right hand corner. Page eight is missing/ has been removed from the sketchbook. The condition of the sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose. In an unpublished Harvard course paper, Anne van Dijkum...
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Sir Edmund Gosse

1886
Oil on canvas
54.6 x 44.5 cm (21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

notes
Sir Edmund Gosse, knighted much later in life (1849-1928), Poet and writer; son of Philip Henry Gosse. He was born Sept. 21, 1849, London, Eng. and died May 16, 1928, London.  He was an English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to English readers.  Gosse...
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Self-Portrait in Profile Graphite

c. 1885-1890
Graphite on off-white wove paper
21.2 cm. x 12.3 cm

notes
Notes:  Bibliography Exhibition of Drawings by John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Grand Central Art Galleries (New York NY, 1928), repr. David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 122, Check List of Sargent's Portraits Trevor Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent...
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Self Portrait 1886

1886
Oil on canvas
34.5 x 29.7 cm

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Roses

c. 1886
Oil on canvas
Unknown size

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife

August 1885
Oil on canvas
52.1 x 62.2 cm ( 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)

notes
Robert Louis Stevenson is pacing and his wife Fanny is seated in background to the right of the door. By and large, the critical review was mixed about this painting. They thought the composition odd and the depiction of Stevenson strange and unflattering, just as some people had said about Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882). But...
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