Notes: Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, for letting me know about this painting and being a friend of the JSS Gallery.  See some of Andy Holzopfel's paintings.  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003

Dennis Miller Bunker was a young American painter from Boston. He had first met Sargent in Boston the winter of '87-'88 through Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, a patron of both Sargent and the young Bunker. In the Summer, Bunker plans to visited Sargent at Calcot and writes to Mrs Gardner:  June 25, 1888 I expect to be off in the country in a...

Henry G. Marquand was a banker who made his money financing railroads for the Vanderbilts and others. Both his wife and he were active in the arts, avid collectors and possessed some of the finest Van Dycks in the United States, an incredible array of Roman bronzes, and a superb collection of Chinese porcelains.  In 1884, the Marquands had...