| Preview | Description | Artist
  | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Joseph Chamberlain ("Joe") by John Singer Sargent 1896 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | 
From Wikipedia
Joseph
Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was an influential British
businessman, politician, and statesman.
In his
early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a
campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He
later became a Liberal Unionist in alliance with the... |
 | 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... |
 | Octavia Hill by John Singer Sargent 1898 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Charles Arthur Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen by John Singer Sargent 1899 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Charles
Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, (b. 10 November 1832 - d. 10 August
1900) was appointed Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 1894 which (at
the time) was the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales,
after the Lord Chancellor. (wikipedia.org)
His title
progression was legal counsel, then Baron Russell, and... |
 | Harley Granville-Barker by John Singer Sargent 1900 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | 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... |
- National Portrait Gallery
