Henry G Marquand, was second president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting was done in Sargent's London studio in the summer of 1897 and was commissioned by the Trustees of the Met. Henry was seventy-eight when this was done. Sargent had painted his wife in 1887 which was Sargent's first portrait commission within the United States.
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Elizabeth Allen Marquand 1887 |