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 | Gladys Vanderbilt by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | 
Gladys
Moore Vanderbilt (27 August 1886 – 29 January 1965) was seventh and
youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the
New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in
New York City, and their summer cottage, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
Richard Morris Hunt
... |
 | Tower at Turin by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Photo Turin Cathedral
Thumbnail only
This is the
same place where the "Shroud of Turin" (Jesus) is located.
Cornice of the
Tower, Turin Cathedral
Brown ink, blue
wash over graphite
Cornice of the
Tower, Turin Cathedral (2)
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 | Brenva Glacier, Purtud by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Offered for
sale as of 1/2/2002
Owen
Gallery
19 East
75th St.
New York,
New York USA 10021
Tel :
(212) 879-2415
Fax: (212)
879-2799
Hours:
Tues.-Sat. 10am-5:30pm
Michael
Owen
Email:
owengalleryart@aol.com
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 | Bologna Fountain by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
|
 | Venetian Canal by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Side Canal in Venice
1902
Watercolor on paper
Note:
Undated
painting, I have included it in 1906 for the sake of narrative.
This work
will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue
raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with
Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.
|
 | Palazzo Zattere, Venice by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Spanierman
Gallery does not date the work. I am guessing 1906 for the sake of narrative.
Christies puts the date at circa 1903
This work
will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent
catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and
Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.
Exhibited
New... |
 | Conrad and Reine Ormand by John Singer Sargent 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Double
portrait of Conrad (1898-1979) and Reine (1897-1971) seated together. Conrad's
arm is around Reine's shoulder. He wears a black suit and white shirt and tie.
Reine wears a pink dress with black hat and pink ribbon.
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The... |
 | A Man Seated by a Stream, Val d'Aosta, Purtud by John Singer Sargent c 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Sold
Sothebys; 12/3/1998; Lot 15; $200,500
Exhibited:
New York,
M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Paintings by the Late John Singer Sargent,
1925, no. 33
|
 | The Chess Game by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent was
an avid chess player and was a game he often played on his painting trips.
In the
summer of 1907 Sargent takes a trip to Purtud which is a little town in the Val
d'Aosta on the Italian-Swiss border and there he paints his nieces and
friends.
A Game of Chess (Sketch)
Just like
his formal commissioned... |
 | Oxen Resting by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Four Studies of Cows
Notes
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
|
 | IL Gesuati, Venice by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Photo: IL Gesuati
Again,
Sargent paints from a gondola looking east by northeast from the canal della
Giudecca.
Note:
Sold
Sotheby's; 5/25/1988; Lot 168; $154,000
Date
estimated by Natasha: really could be any number of years but included with
1907 just for the sake of narrative.
|
 | The Piazzetta and Ducale Palace by John Singer Sargent c. 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
See also:
The Piazzetta, Venice
c.1904
Watercolor on paper
Palazzo Ducale
(Dodge's Palace)
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
|
 | Perseus, Florence by John Singer Sargent c. 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sketch of Cellini's Perseus watercolor
Note:
Sold
Sothebys; 5/22/1996; Lot 9; $68,500
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
The site
indicated the painting to be in the collection of Bernadette Berger.
|
 | Mrs. Huth Jackson (nee Annabel Grant Duff) by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<matt davies @ jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002
Born Annabel Grant Duff, daughter of Sir Mountstuart
Grant Duff, one-time governor of Madras.
Annabel spent some time in India as a child. in 1895 she
married financier Frederick Huth Jackson. She befriended both Sargent
and Lady Agnew. ... |
 | Viola Tree, 1907 by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Viola was
the daughter of the well-known actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Her uncle was
Max Beerbohm.
"31 Tite
Street"
Max Beerbohm
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me a note regarding this image.
At the time
of the exhibit in 1979, it was owned by her... |
 | Helen Olivia Brice by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Dated by
David McKibbin.
Exhibitions:
Carnegie
Institute 1910 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1910,
no. 245.
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no.... |
 | Lady Sassoon by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sybil
Sassoon (1894-1989) married the Earl of Rocksavage in 1913 and became
Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1923 with his accession to fifth maquess.
When
Sargent painted a portrait of Aline, Lady Sassoon, in 1907, the Sassoon family were
initially not completely won over by it. Apparently this is when Sargent made
his well-known comment, "It... |
 | Izme Vickers by John Singer Sargent 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Image taken
from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian
Catalogue of Works which show two seperate files.
Both may be describing the same painting:
IAP 86660056
Owner:
Coe Kerr
Gallery, 49 East 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028
Bibliography:
Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer... |
 | Cora, Countess of Strafford by John Singer Sargent 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Cora Smith
(d. 1932) married first to Samuel James Colgate; secondly, Henry William John
Byng, fourth Earl of Strafford in 1898; thirdly, Martyn Thomas Kennard.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University... |
 | William Butler Yeats by John Singer Sargent 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. He won the Nobel
prize for literature in 1923.
He was born
in Dublin, the son of John Butler Yeats, a portrait painter.
William Butler
Yeats
1900
(the artist's son)
William
studied art himself for three years until 1889 when his first collection of
poems... |
 | Anthony Asquith by John Singer Sargent c. 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Anthony
Asquith "Puffin" (1902-1968), youngest son of Herbert Henry and
Margot Asquith, Count and Countess of Oxford.
His father
was the British Prime Minister and he grew up in 10 Downing Street from when he
was six years old to fifteen (1908-1916).
To the
dismay of his political father, however, he didn’t take after his half
siblings who... |
 | Mrs. Asquith by John Singer Sargent 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Although
the drawing was not dated by Christies it could have possbily been done at the
time Sargent drew her son around 1908
See
Sargent's earlier drawing:
Anthony
Asquith
c. 1908
(son to Margot)
Emma (Margot), Countess
of Oxford and Asquith
1897
Chalk
Notes:
Sold
Christies,
27... |
 | Earl of Wemyss and March by John Singer Sargent c. 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
The Earl of Wemyss and March
1909
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me a note regarding this image.
From John
Sargent, 1927, by the Hon. Evan Charteris (published by Charles Scribner's
Sons). (Charteris was one of the
Souls, and knew Sargent well.)
Philip... |
 | Marie Marguerite Renet Ormond (1847-1925) by John Singer Sargent c. 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
She is the
mother-in-law to John S. Sargent's little sister
Violet (Sargent) Ormond. Violet had married Marie
Marguerite's only child Francis Ormond in 1891 and from the marriage they would
give her six grandchildren.
According
to Richard Ormond (great grandson to Marie Marguerite and great nephew to John
Singer Sargent) Marie Marguerite... |
 | Purtud: Fir Trees and Snow Mountains by John Singer Sargent 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Sale
Sold at
Sotheby's New York, 30 Nov 2005; Session 1, Sale No. N08134,
Lot 23;
Sold $51,000 USD ( was estimated
25,000—30,000 USD)
This
watercolor will be included in a forthcoming volume of the J.S. Sargent
catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in
collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth... |
 | Valdemosa, Majorca, Pomegranates by John Singer Sargent 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent
did a number of paintings of Pomegranates which are all attributed to the 1908
trip to Majorca, Spain. Two of which are:
Pomegranates,
Majorca
The Warner
Collection of Gulf States Paper Corp., Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Oil on
Canvas
71.8 x 56.5
cm (28.25 x 22.25 in)
Pomegranates
The
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Watercolor
and pencil on... |
 | The Hotel Room by John Singer Sargent c.1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
For
discussion of, see
View from a Window Genoa, Italy
1911
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
|
 | Lady Desborough (Ethel 'Ettie' Grenfell) by John Singer Sargent 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Here is
Ethel ('Ettie') Grenfell, later Lady Desborough, wife of William Grenfell,
later Lord Desborough. The drawing
is from 1909. The Grenfells home,
Taplow Court, was 'next door' to the Astors' Cliveden estate. Ettie and Nancy Astro were... |
 | Lady Cynthia Charteris by John Singer Sargent 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Cynthia Charteris (1909), daughter of
Hugo and
Mary Elcho (later the Earl and Countess of Wemyss),
both members of the
Souls.
Mary (Cynthia's mother) was painted by Sargent in
'The Wyndham Sisters'. Her bother was Hugo Charteris.
Cynthia
later married the... |
 | A Garden in Corfu by John Singer Sargent c 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Offered but
not sold Christie's; 5/26/1994; Lot 92; estimated $400,00-$600,000
Date
estimated by Natasha
Forum
From: Stan
g ra
nt4art@cableone.net
Date: Apr
12, 2006
Hi Natasha-
. . .What prompts me to write is that I think I found an oil
piece of Mr. Sargents that you list as watercolor. The "A Garden in Corfu".... |
 | Corfu by John Singer Sargent circa 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent
first trip to Corfu was in 1908 acording to (Sargent Abroad: Figures and
Landscapes, New York, 1997, p. 119).
Notes:
Exhibited:
London,
England, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of the Works by the late John Singer
Sargent, R. A., Winter Exhibition, 1926, no. 548
Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, An... |
 | The Rialto by John Singer Sargent c. 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Exhibited
London,
England, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A.,
1926, no. 26, illustrated p. 100
New York,
New York City Art Gallery, New York City Art Gallery Loan Exhibition, 1926, no.
2
Bibliography
Hon. Evan
Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 291
Richard
Ormond, John Singer Sargent:... |
 | Portrait of L. A. Harrison, Esquire by John Singer Sargent c. 1910 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Exhibitions
Society of
Portrait Painters, no. 168
London,
England, National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, 1940, no. 524
Bibliography
David
McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: with an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a
complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, Massachusetts,1956, p. 100
Sale
Sold at
Sothebys,... |
 | Blanche Marchesi by John Singer Sargent 1910 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: www.bach-cantatas.com
Blanche
Marchesi, (de Castrone) 1863-1940,
was an opera singer/teacher (Soprano)
She was the
daughter of the distinguished Italian baritone and teacher Salvatore Marchesi
de Castrorie (1822-1908) and the famous German mezzo-soprano and pedagogue
Mathilde (née Graumann) Marchesi de Castrone (1821-1913). After... |
 | Santa Maria del Carmelo and Scuola Grande dei Carmini by John Singer Sargent 1910 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Mary Hope Mellor by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Mrs Francis Hamilton Mellor
1912
(mother to Mary Hope Mellor)
Mary's
husband was Gavin Turnbull Simonds, much later 1st Viscount Simonds, British
judge, then Lord Chancellor.
(her
husband wikipedia)
Notes:
Sold
Sold
Christies, 4 June 1999, London,
King Street, £10,925 (or $18,166 USD), Sale # 6127, lot 15, was... |
 | Beatrice Alice Fielden by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Bibliography
David
McKibben, Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956, p. 96
Sale:
Sold
Sothebys New York, November 29, 06, Session 2, 2:00 PM, LOT 135, SALE N08249,
ammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
132,000 USD, estimated 60,000—80,000 USD
|
 | Margaretta Drexel Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From Sothebys Catalogue
Margaretta
Drexel was the granddaughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893), the
Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, partner of J.P. Morgan, and founder of
Drexel University. His niece, Saint Katherine Drexel, was sainted in 2000, only
the second American in history. In 1910, Margaretta married Guy Finch... |
 | Mrs. Gilbert Russell by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Sold
Christies April 1997, New York,
Park Avenue, Sale # 8656, Estimate,
$7,000 - $10,000, sold for $29,900
Sold from
the collection of lord and lady white of hull
|
 | Ernest Thesiger by John Singer Sargent c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: The Univerity of Bristol
Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961) was a star of stage and screen, most notorius for his portrayal of Dr Pretorius in the film 'The
Bride of Frankenstein' (1935). After an initial art training at the Slade, his
first professional stage appearance was in 'Colonel Smith' (1909) at St James's
Theatre
(The Univerity of... |
 | The Simplon by John Singer Sargent c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Offered
Sotheby's; 5/24/2001; Lot 5
Sold
Christie's; 5/25/1989; Lot 225; $28,600
Sold
Sotheby's; 5/25/1988; Lot 173; $26,400
Date
estimated by Natasha. Sotheby's has a date of 1919, but this is highly
doubtful.
Exhibited:
New York,
Coe Kerr Gallery, John Singer Sargent, His Own
Work,
May-June
1980, no. 53, illustrated
|
 | Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938 ) (Later Duke of Connaught) by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Prince Arthur of Connaught (1911), son of the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught, Grandson to Queen Victoria.
Prince Arthur married the Duchess of Fife in 1913 (Princess Alexandra of
Fife 1891-1959, granddaughter to King Edward VII, great granddaughter... |
 | Rialto, Venice by John Singer Sargent c. 1907-11 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the
JSS Gallery, for sending me a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent
and Italy, 2002-2003
|
 | Bivouac by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
A Stone Mason Under a Lean-To in the Mountains
Date?
Notes:
Sold
Sotheby's New York; 12/2/1993; Lot:
100; $17,250
1) The date
is estimated by Natasha I’m not positive this is Carrara, but it’s
a possibility
|
 | A Marble Fountain at Aranjuez by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition --
Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
Sold
Sotheby's; 12/1/1994; Lot 33; $343,500
|
 | Court of the Lions by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
As of
December 31, 1999 the painting was offered for sale at
Adelson
Galleries
The Mark
Hotel
25 East
77th Street
Third
Floor
New York,
New York 10021
Phone:
(212) 439-6800
Email: info@adelsongalleries.com
Provenance
Year
Owner
1987
... |
 | A Palace and Gardens, Spain by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From Christie's Lot
Notes
In Sargent's A Palace and Gardens, Spain, the artist chooses
to paint a Baroque facade seen from a distance across a formal garden. The work
is freely sketched, as if the artist sought to capture a fleeting image of sunlight.
On the left, he paints leaves with staccato strokes of green and a hedge with a
broader... |
 | Sir William Blake Richmond RA (1842-1921) by John Singer Sargent c. 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
Exhibitions
1916, Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened
June, 1916.
|
 | Lord Buckhurst (9th Earl De La Warr) by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: "Will Buckhurst"
<will buck
hurst@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002
Natasha,
The drawing
is still privately owned by a member of my family.
In answer
to your questions, the sitter is better known as the 9th Earl De La Warr (whose family gave its name to the US State). This is
the title he succeeded to on his father's... |
 | Helen Sears 1912 by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent had
painted her as a little girl 17 years previous:
Helen Sears
1895
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
|
 | Lady Gwendoline Churchill (Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie) (1885-1941) by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Spouse of
The Hon. John Strange Spencer-Churchill.
Duke of Marlborough
Family
(9th Duke)
1905
(related someway
through Lady Gwendoline's husband)
|
 | Robert Henry Benson by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Robert
Henry Benson (1850-1929) of London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex was a banker. He
served as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London and was an avid
collector, particularly of the Italian renaissance.
He was also
a patron of Sargent's
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery,... |
 | Mrs. Godfrey William Paget Mellor (Norah Alston) by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley, of Sheffield,
England, friends of the JSS Gallery, for sending me headsup
on this drawing.
Bibliography
D. McKibben, Sargent's Boston with
an Essay and a Biographical Summary and a complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, 1956, p. 109.
Sale
Sold at
Christies, London, Nov... |
 | Mrs. Reginald Grenville Eves (nee Bertha Papillon) by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Bibliography
David
McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: with an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a
complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 95
Sale
Sold at
Sothebys, New York, 19 May 04, Session 1,
10:15 AM, Sale N07997
lot 9, estimated 30,000—50,000
USD
from the
collection of Mrs.... |
 | Mrs. Francis Hamilton Mellor by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Mary Hope Mellor
1911
(daughter to Mrs. Francis Hamilton Mellor)
Notes:
Sold
Sold
Christies, 4 June 1999, London, King Stree, £3,220 ($5,354 USD); Sale # 6127, Lot 16, it
was estimated £3,000 - £5,000 ($4,988 - $8,314)
Literature
D.
McKibbon, Sargent's Boston, with a complete check list of Sargent's... |
 | Mrs Alfred Flowler (Eva Neumann) by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Exhibited
London,
Royal Academy, 1926, no. 444 (lent by A. Fowler Esq.)
Bibliography
William
Howe Downes, John Singer Sargent: His Life and Work, 1926, p. 364
David McKibbin,
Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956, p. 96
Sale:
Sold
Sothebys New York, November 29, 06, Session 2, 2:00 PM, LOT 155, SALE N08249,
Hammer... |
 | Theresa ('Nellie') Marchioness of Londonderry by John Singer Sargent 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: 26 July 2004
I recently
purchased a copy of an old book by H. Montgomery Hyde entitled Londonderry
House and its Pictures (Cresset Press Ltd., London, 1937). On page 60 of this
book it gives an entry for each of three works that were then in the possession
of the family of... |
 | Sibyl Sasson-Countess of Rocksavage by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
matt da
vies@jssgallery.org
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002
Sybil Sasson, Countess of Rocksavage
(later Marchioness of Cholmondeley) She married the
Earl of Rocksavage, and they were later Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley.[2]
Sir Philip Sasson was Sybil's brother and John Sketched and painted
him as well. ... |
 | The Marchioness of Bath by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
|
 | Sylvia Harrison by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sylvia
Harrison (1896-1989) was the daughter of Peter and Alma Harrison (nee
Strettell) -- both were Sargent's close friends.
Giovanni Boldini
John S Sargent
Portrait of the
Artist: Lawrence Alexander "Peter" Harrison
1902
(Father to Sylvia)
Alma Strettell
c.1889
(Mother to Sylvia)
... |
 | Rose-Marie Ormond (later Madame Robert Andre-Michel 1893-1918) by John Singer Sargent 1913-1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Robert André-Michel
(Husband to Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie
was the niece to John Singer Sargent, daughter to Violet Sargent Ormond. The
caption here reads:
Rose-Marie
Ormond
Widow of
Robert André-Michel
killed at
Saint-Gervais, on Good Friday, 1918
by German
bombardment
Rose-Marie Title
Unknown... |
 | Rose-Marie Title Unknown by John Singer Sargent 1913 ? Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
I found
this image of Rose-Marie in an ebay sale for an old book (I didn't copy down
the title). This was one of the images. It seems to me that this was done at
the same time as Rose-Marie Ormond (later Madame Robert André-Michel)
which would put it, if my thinking is correct, at the time of her wedding.
Rose-Marie
... |
 | Palazzo Labia and San Geremia, Venice by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
The view is
looking northwest at the convergence of the Grand Canal and the Cannaregio
Canal. The San Geremia is the domed building straight ahead and Located (D3) on
the big map (the northern side of the Grand Canal and west side of Cannaregio).
From Philip Resheph
Date: 10/6/00
If the
traffic was anything like it is today, it... |
 | Palazzo Labbia, Venice by John Singer Sargent 1913-1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Bibliography
R. Ormond, John
Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, New York, 1970, p. 257 see
also P. Hills, John Singer Sargent, New York, 1986, pp. 199, 201
Exhibited
London,
England, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, Winter
Exhibition, January-March 1926
Offered
Christie's... |
 | Girl Fishing at San Vigilio by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Offered not
sold Christies; 5/24/2001; Lot 23; etimated $4,000,000 - $6,000,000
Literature:
William
Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925,
pp. 258-59
|
 | A Landscape Study at San Vigilio, Lake of Garda by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
San
Vilgilio is a small fishing village at the southern end of Lake Garda. The
painting is of the hills just outside the village.
Note:
Offered but
not sold Sothebys; 5/24/2001; Lot 25; estimated $300,000 - $400,000
Exhibited:
London,
Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition of Works by the late John S. Sargent, R.A.,
1926
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 | Mountain Scene: The Tyrol by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Sold
Sothebys; Session 1; May 21, 2003, 2:00 PM; Sale N07904, lot 142; $42,000 USD
Offered for
sale 5/1//2001; Adelson Galleries,
New York.
Literature
1945 --
Exhibition Catalogue; Watercolors by Brabzon and Sargent
1944 Exhibition Catalogue Paintings by
Important Contemporary & 19th Century Artists, Watercolors by... |
 | A Tyrolese Crucifux by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Literature
W.H.
Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, pp.
247-48.
E.
Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 293.
C.M. Mount,
John Singer Sargent, London, 1957, p. 361.
C.M. Mount,
"The Works of John Singer Sargent in Washington," Records of the
Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,... |
 | Lady Diana Manners by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
Matt Da
vies@jssgallery.org
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Lady Diana
Manners is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. In 1919 she married Duff Cooper (later
Viscount Norwich).
In June of
1916 the drawing was exhibted with the the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
at the Grafton Galleries which was... |
 | Rosie Marie-Louise Derenbur by John Singer Sargent 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From Sothebys
Rosie
Marie-Louise Derenburg (8 years old here) was the
daughter of Ilona Eibenschütz,
a well-known Hungarian pianist and friend of Clara Schumann and Johannes
Brahms. At the age of five or six, Eibenschütz (the
mother) reportedly played a duet with Franz Liszt, today considered one of the
greatest pianists that ever lived. In... |
 | Elizabeth Asquith "mug" (later Elizabeth Bibesco) by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Paul Darby
darby
and joan1@yahoo.com
Date:
Sat, 22 May 2004
After 24
years my wife and I finally had a chance to visit her home in Paris from which
her daughter had recently been removed to a nursing home. We met a relative who
by chance was in town and looked around the apartment - it was a kind of shrine
to Elizabeth Asquith... |
 | 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... |
 | Mrs Claude Beddington by John Singer Sargent 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From:
Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Mar 30, 2006
From Mrs.
Claude Beddington, All That I Have Met, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1929, p. 151-7:
[Biographical Note: The author was born
Frances Ethel, daughter of Francis Berry Homan-Mulock
of Ballycumber House, County Offaly,
Ireland. She married Col. Claude Beddington.... |
 | Viscount Althorp by John Singer Sargent 1915 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent
drew his his father in 1916
Sixth Earl Spencer
1916
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me notes regarding this image.
|
 | Edward Wyndham Tennant by John Singer Sargent Charcoal Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Lt. The Hon. Edward
Wyndham Tennant
Photograph
Date?
Lt. The Hon. Edward
Wyndham Tennant
Photograph
Date?
From: Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
The Wyndham Sisters
1899
Here is
Edward Wyndham Tennant (known to his friends as 'Bim'), son... |
 | Sixth Earl Spencer by John Singer Sargent 1916 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Charles
Robert Spencer, the Sixth Earl of Spencer (1857-1922).
Althorp, the ancestral home of the Spencers
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me the image of Sargent's drawing.
In June of
1916 the drawing was exhibited with the the Royal Society of Portrait... |
 | Edith, seventh Marchioness of Londonderry (nee Edith Chaplin) by John Singer Sargent 1916 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Charles Stewart, Sixth Marquess of Londonderry
1902
(Father-in-law to Edith)
This
drawing is believed to be Edith, seventh Marchioness of Londonderry, the
(daughter-in-law of Charles and Theresa).
The date
appears to me to be either 1914 or 1916.
Philip Alexius de Laszlo
Viscountess Castlereagh, Preparatory... |
 | Rosemary, Viscountess Ednam by John Singer Sargent 1917 or 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Rosemary,
Viscountess Ednam, daughter of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, and wife of
Viscount Ednam (later Earl of Dudley).
She was killed in a tragic airplane accident.
Millicent, Duches of Sutherland
1904
(mother to... |
 | Daniel J. Nolan by John Singer Sargent 1917 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Bibliography
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 580.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Kennedy
Gallery Sale Cat., the American View Art from 1770-1978.... |
 | Artillery on the March by John Singer Sargent 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Female Nudes by John Singer Sargent Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Double
sided drawing in red chalk of female.
Notes:
Sold
Sotheby's; 7/27/2000; Lot 1L5V offered by Daniel Hunt Fine Art; $20,350
including buyers premium.
|
 | Female Nudes (1) by John Singer Sargent Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Double
sided drawing in red chalk of female.
Notes:
Sold
Sotheby's; 7/27/2000; Lot 1L5V offered by Daniel Hunt Fine Art; $20,350
including buyers premium.
|
 | Mrs. C. J. Conway ("Mug") by John Singer Sargent 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Mrs. C. J.
Conway, 1919 charcoal drawing, signed and dated 1919 . . .with
accompanying note and envelope from Mr. Sargent
discussing the work.
Notes:
As of
Feb15th, the piece was offered for sale at Sotheby's -- offered by Hess Fine Art
Sold
Sotheby's; 3/7/2001; Lot#: 4P59; $40,000 plus $4,750 buyers
premium
|
 | Lady Cynthia Hamilton by John Singer Sargent 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Lady
Cynthia Hamilton was the spouse of Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
(1892-1972). This was drawn the year of their marriage.
Sixth Earl Spencer
1916
(Step-father to
Lady Cynthia Hamilton)
|
 | Portrait drawing ("Mug") of Mrs. Redmond McGrath by John Singer Sargent 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Notes:
Gratitude to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley of
Sheffield, England for sending me the image and information.
From: Wendy & Gordon Hawksley
<g w @ whawksley. fsnet. co. uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002
[Shown at the] "'Society Portraits
1850 - 1939' - this was an exhibition held at the Colnaghi
Gallery and the Clarendon Gallery... |
 | Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell by John Singer Sargent 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From Christies
Sir Charles
Macpherson Dobell (1869-1954), The Royal Welch Fusileers, served in field
command positions in Africa and Palestine during World War One, and he was
knighted and promoted to Lieutenant-General following his endeavours as commander
of an Anglo-French force tasked with the capture of Cameroon. He was mentioned
in... |
 | At the Forge by John Singer Sargent 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
I don't
know the history of this drawing, but get a load of this:
Sargent's
friend, Edwin Austin Abbey was commissioned to do some murals for the State
Capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before he could finish these, Edwin, in
1911, grew deathly sick.
Sargent, at
the time, was in Munich when he received word from Edwin's wife. John... |
 | Study for "The Archers" (Boston decoration) by John Singer Sargent 1919 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Male Model, Seated by John Singer Sargent 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Schooner, Catherine, Somes by John Singer Sargent c. 1920-1925 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Sold Sothebys; 12/5/1996; Lot 21; $134,500
Forum
From: Donald L Smith
<don sm itty@adelphia.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003
Do you have
any knowledge of the builder or owner of the Scooner
Catherine Somes?
I have been
doing genealogy on the Welch family of Wells, ME and back in 1727/8 there was a
marriage between David Welch... |
 | Sand Beach, Schooner Head by John Singer Sargent 1917? Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Scooner
Head is loacted in Acadia National Park, which is only a couple of miles south
of Bar Harbor Maine. This painting, along with "Schooner Catherine
Somes" was painted while Sargent was visiting cousins. The two paintings
were in the Hale family and the figure on the beach was belived to have been of
Mary Newbold Patterson Hale though never... |
 | Renatta Borgatti by John Singer Sargent 1921 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Renata
Borgatti (1894-1964) was a daughter of a famous Wagnerian tenor. She herself
became a great concert pianist at a time when the field was overwhelmingly
dominated by men.
In 1920 she
was painted by the expatriate American
Romaine
Brooks (1874 - 1970). Brooks was made Croix de la Legion d'Honneur following
the Salon de la... |
 | Eleonora Randolph Sears by John Singer Sargent 1921 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
Sold Doyle
New York, May 24, 2005, Lot 144, $96,000.
Sold from
the Collection of William J. and Jean Hogan of Bronxville, New York. The Hogan
Collection was assembled predominantly during the 1950s through the 1970s and
offers works by a number of prominent American and European artists. Jean Hogan
studied nuclear physics and joined IBM... |
 | The Countess of Rocksavage later Marchioness of Cholmondeley (Sybil Sassoon) by John Singer Sargent 1922 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Three-quarter-length
standing portrait of the Countess of Rocksavage wearing a black dress with
stand-up collar, gold panel down the front, red accents, and gold train hanging
for the shoulders. She wears several long strands of pearls with a gold winged
jewel hanging at her breast. She holds a single flower in her right... |
 | On the Verandah (Ironbound Island, Maine) by John Singer Sargent 1920-1922? Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
Sargent
painted his friend and artist Dwight Blaney. This would be one of Sargent's
last scene paintings.
From: Ben Blaney
bb la
ney@ironbound.net
Date: Wednesday, December 17-20, 2003
JSS visited
my grandfather Dwight Blaney several times on Ironbound Island, and made at
least 7 paintings there, only 2 of which I found on... |
 | Duke of York (later King George V) by John Singer Sargent 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... |
 | Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore by John Singer Sargent 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... |
 | Lady Elixabeth Bowes-Lyon by John Singer Sargent 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
These first
two pics are from the Illustrated London News, April 28, 1923, which
commemorated the wedding of the Duke of York (later King George VI r.
1936-1952) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother), daughter of... |
 | Daisy Fellowes (Honourable Mrs. Renginal "Daisy" Fellowes) by John Singer Sargent Charcoal on paper Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From Sothebys
(9/30/08)
Daisy
Fellowes, an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, is acknowledged as
having been one of the 20th century's most stylish and glamorous women. Born in
Paris in 1890 of American and French descent, from the 1920's onwards Daisy was
one of the uncrowned queens of the social scene and a leader of fashion... |
 | Mabell, Countess of Airlie by John Singer Sargent 1923 Private Collection Unknown, USA | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Here is
another grouping of several family members. These are three sisters: the first being Mabell, Countess of
Airlie (1923), the second being Alice, Marchioness of Salisbury, and the third
being Esther, Viscountess Hambleden.
All three
of these are... |
- Private Collection
