Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Mrs. Ernest Hills (d. 1932) leaning on a stone ballustrade. She wears a white gown with black evening coat. A landscape is in the background.

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References:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 509.

Gidley, M., "A Catalogue of American paintings in British Public Collections," [Exeter] University of Exeter, American Arts Documentation Centre, 1974.

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

Illustration:     

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 166.