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.

Note:

Dated by Charles Merrill Mount

References:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 296.

McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Illustration:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 74.