Senator Calvin Stewart, (b 1845 - d 1898) Served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1889; then one term as Senator from 1891-1897 as a Democrat from Ohio, did not run for reelection. Died five months after this painting in New York December 15, 1898.

(bioguide.congress.gov 10-19-08)

Description:    

Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Calvin Brice (1845-1898) holding a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand and a pair of gloves in his left hand, which is at his side. He wears a suit with a red flower in a buttonhole.

(SIRIS)

Note:

Exhibitions:    

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sixty Ninth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1900, no. 18.

Bibliography:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 346.

Allen County Historical Society, 1971.

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. 132.