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Lt. The Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant Photograph Date? |
Lt. The Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant Photograph Date? |
From: Matt Davies
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
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The Wyndham Sisters 1899 |
Here is Edward Wyndham Tennant (known to his friends as 'Bim'), son of Edward Tennant and Pamela Wyndham Tennant (later Lord and Lady Glenconner) His mother was one of the Wyndham Sisters whom Sargent portrayed in the painting sometimes referred to as 'The Three Graces,' and his father was the brother of Margot Asquith. Edward Wyndham Tennant was killed in action in World War I in 1916. The portrait was reproduced as the frontispiece to Edward Wyndham Tennant, A Memoir by his Mother Pamela Glenconner, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head,
Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me notes regarding this image.