"Before sittings began, Shanks assumed that they would take place in Kensington Palace, where the Princess lives. A friend had offered him the use of a studio in Chelsea, and, he recalls, "I gave her the option, and she said, 'Oh, let's do it there. I'd love to get out of here.'"  
(TIME International, April 22, 1996 Volume 147, No. 17) 
  

John Singer Sargent 
 
Sixth Earl Spencer  
1916 
(Great Uncle of Princess Diana) 

Notes 

• See much more on Nelson Shanks
• See Sargent's Tite Street Studio