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 | Portrait of Ramalho Ortigao "Mug" by John Singer Sargent Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | 
José
Duarte Ramalho Ortigão
(October 24, 1836 - September 27, 1915) was a Portuguese writer and then later
a diplomat
Ortigão studied law in the University of Coimbra but never finished the course.
After returning to his home town he taught French in a college run by his
father; among his students was Eça de Queiroz.
In 1862 he
dedicated... |
 | Portrait of Sally Fairchild by John Singer Sargent c. 1885-1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early
portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 202.; McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent:... |
 | Portrait Of Samuel Wardwell Of Cherry Valley, New York by Cephas Thompson 1807 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Thompson, Cephas | |
 | Portrait of Sir George Lewis by John Singer Sargent 1896 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Every
generation has one: cocky, powerful, brutally effective. They appear on
everyone's "A" list for solicitors. Sir George Lewis was at the top of everyone's "dream
team". He was the most preeminent solicitor in London and was Sargent's
solicitor.
George's
second wife was Lady Lewis (nee Elizabeth Eberstadt) whom John painted in 1892.
... |
 | Portrait of Sir Walter Parratt "Mug" by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sir Walter Parratt (b. 1841 Huddersfield d.
1924) a premier organist of St. George's chapel, Windsor, and Master of Music
to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. The official duties of
Master of the Royal Music are few -- they normally writes the
occasional small work to commemorate a Royal occasion.
He was born
the son of... |
 | Portrait of Solomon Townsend by Ezra Ames Completed in 1808 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Ames, Ezra | Townsend was a Revolutionary War era ship captain, owner of an iron works, and was a New York State Legislator. |
 | Portrait of the artist's daughter by William DeLeftwich Dodge 1929 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Dodge, William DeLeftwich | Sale Of Christie's New York: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 [Lot 89] Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture |
 | Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Alfred Juergens Pastel on paper Private Collection Unknown, USA | Juergens, Alfred | |
 | Portrait Of The Beardsley Children by Nicholas Biddle Kittell 1855 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Kittell, Nicholas Biddle | |
 | Portrait of the Hon Charles Alfred Lister "Mug" by John Singer Sargent 1899 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
The Hon. Charles Alfred Lister, son of Lord
Ribblesdale whom Sargent painted in 1902. The drawing was reproduced as the
frontispiece of the book which Ribblesdale later wrote as a memorial after
Charles was killed in World War I: "Charles Lister: Letters and
Recollections with a Memoir by his Father" (1917).
On the
tissue guard covering the... |
- Private Collection
