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 | Dame Ethel Smyth by John Singer Sargent 1901 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | 
From: Women's Voices
Dame Ethel
Mary Smyth (1858-1944) overcame the constraints of her middle-class English
background by open rebellion. Taught piano and theory as ladylike
accomplishments, she became so concentrated in her studies that her family
deemed them unsuitably intense, and stopped her lessons. The teenaged Ethel
went on a... |
 | Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1856-1925) by John Singer Sargent 1902 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | John Seymour Lucas by John Singer Sargent 1905 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy by John Singer Sargent 1905 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts by John Singer Sargent 1906 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Douglas Snyder
(das
2@erols.com)
Date: Fri,
1 Aug 2003
One of the
most outstanding portraits (in my opinion) is Sargent's
portrait of Frederick Sleigh Robert (The Earl of Kandahar). Sargent
captures the essence of this career military man (who served in India,
Afghanistan and South Africa) in a most masculine portrayal of... |
 | Arthur Balfour by John Singer Sargent 1908 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Artfund
Arthur
James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (Tory Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905).
Balfour was
one of the pivotal figures in British politics from the late 1880s to the late
1920s. In 1879, he made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of
Philosophic Doubt and was the most admired of the group of young,... |
 | Henry James by John Singer Sargent Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
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... |
 | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon by John Singer Sargent 1913 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, by John Singer Sargent 1916-1922 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
During WW1
he was a General Officer Commanding Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
World War I 1914-1918; Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and
Commander, Dardanelles Army, Gallipoli 1915-1916; General Officer Commanding
Australian Imperial Force 1915-1918; France 1916-1918; Commander, 5 Army,
France 1918-1919
Service... |
 | General Officers of the Great War by John Singer Sargent 1922 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
1 William
Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
(1865-1951), Field Marshal
2 Jan
Christian Smuts (1870-1950), Field Marshal and South Arfican
Statesman
3 Louis
Botha... |
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