Waist-length portrait of Francis J. H. (John Henry) Jenkinson ( 1853-Cambridge, Eng., 1923).  Commissioned by subscribers to the University of Cambridge in recognition of Jenkinson's twenty-five years of service as librarian.

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Bibliography:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 573.

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. 235.