| Preview | Description
  | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Charlotte Cushman by William Page 1853 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Page, William | |
 | Coventry Patmore by John Singer Sargent 1894 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | 
Subject: Who was Coventry Patmore
From: Philip Resheph
phi lip.res heph@btinternet.com
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001
This was an
article in today's Guardian (British respectable newspaper NOT owned by Rupert
Murdoch) - I thought it might make a little addition to JSS's portrait of
Coventry Patmore, to which the article refers. . . .... |
 | 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... |
 | David Garrick by Robert Edge Pine 1775 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Pine, Robert Edge | |
 | David Wiley by Charles Peale Polk circa 1800 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Polk, Charles Peale | |
 | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon by John Singer Sargent 1913 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Eleazar Williams by Joseph Fagnani 1853 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane by Joseph Fagnani 1857 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | Elisha Kent Kane (28 February 1820 – 16 February 1857) was a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was present at the discovery of Sir John Franklin's first winter camp, but he did not find out what had happened to... |
 | Elizabeth Fry by Charles Robert Leslie 1823 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Leslie, Charles Robert | |
 | Emma (Margot), Countess of Oxford and Asquith by John Singer Sargent 1897 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Margot
Asquith (nee' Tennant) 1864 to 1945, wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the
one-time Prime Minster of England between 1909 and 1916. She was a member of
"The Souls," an important literary and aesthetic group in England.
Sargent
also drew her children and again herself later:
Anthony
Asquith
c. 1908
(son to... |
- National Portrait Gallery
