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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (sketch)

1889
Oil on canvas
53.5 x 40.6 cm (21.06 x 15.98 in.)

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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

1889
Oil on canvas
221 x 114.3 cm

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Probably the closest Sargent ever got to the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood was with his paintings of the famous actress, Dame Ellen Terry (1847–1928) as Lady Macbeth after the first performance in the role; and yet this is not at all an allegorical painting, just a straight portrait of the actress in costume playing Lady Macbeth. Still, the tone, the...
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Clementina Anstruther-Thomson

1889
Oil on canvas
106.7 x 74 cm (42 x 29 1/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Description:     Three-quarter-length portrait of Clementina Anstruther-Thomson (1857-1921) standing outdoors. She wears a walking suit and hat. Her hands hold her coat at her chest. Portrait of Miss Clementina 1889  Note: Bibliography:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete...
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Cicely Horner

c. 1889
Oil on canvas laid down
61.0 x 40.6 cm (24 x 16 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Bonhams & Butterfield A letter dated 1924, relating to the provenance of this painting accompanies the lot. It states in part: The Sargent picture "Lady Horner's Daughter" was painted by Sargent at least fifteen years ago. It came through Mrs. C. Lewis Hind of London direct from the family, within the last three years./Mrs. Hind took...
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Charles Stuart Forbes

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.)

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American born artist who studied with Sargent in Paris and fellow colleague. He was one of four artists that painted Robert Browning in 1881 at Browning son's Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice along with Ralph Curtis and others.  Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of...
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Autumn on the River (Miss Violet Sargent)

1889
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Alma Strettell (or "Stretell")

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
66 x 54.6 (6 x 21 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Alma Strettell, later Alma Strettell Harrison 1856-1939    Poet and writer, she was intensly interested in folk music and wrote or co-wrote:  Spanish and Italian Folk-Songs; London, 1887 Legends from River and Mountain; Carmen Sylva (H. M. Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell, Illustrated by T. H. Robinson, George Allen, London, 1896,...
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A Portrait of Violet

1889
Oil on canvas
59.69 x 38.1 cm (23.5 x 15 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Possibly it was Violet again that inspired Sargent sketch below: Woman Sketch Date? Violet  1881  Notes: Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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A Javanese Girl at Her Toilet

1889
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 in.

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A Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil
177.8 x 81.3 cm (70 x 32 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes:  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Bibliography: Mount, Charles Merrill, "John Singer Sargent: a biography," London: Cresset Press, 1957. Catalogue    JSS: 20055 SIRIS IAP: 81710128 CMM: K8911
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