| Preview | Description | Artist
  | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Charlotte Cushman by William Page 1853 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Page, William | |
 | David Garrick by Robert Edge Pine 1775 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Pine, Robert Edge | |
 | Catharine Macaulay by Robert Edge Pine 1775 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Pine, Robert Edge | |
 | Catharine Macaulay (1) 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 | |
 | Frances Anne ('Fanny') Kemble by Peter Frederick Rothermel 1849 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Rothermel, Peter Frederick | |
 | Sir Edmund Gosse by John Singer Sargent 1886 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | 
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... |
 | Hercules Brabazon Brabazon by John Singer Sargent 1893 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Painted for
Hercules himself by Sargent. Not sure if this was a gift or if Hercules
commissioned it. Some seven years later he would paint him again which Sargent
kept for his own collection.
Hercules Brabazon
1900
Note:
Dated by Charles
Merrill Mount
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John... |
 | Alice Meynell (nee Thompson) by John Singer Sargent 1894 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | 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. . . .... |
- National Portrait Gallery
