Miss Eleanor Brooks
1890
(Daughter to Mrs. Peter
Chardon Brooks)
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Close-up of hand on statuary
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Mrs.
Peter Chardon Brooks
(nee Sarah Lawrence)
John
Singer Sargent
-- American
painter
1890
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Oil on canvas
126.37 x 101.92 m (49 3/4 x 40 1/8
in)
Signed upper right: John S. Sargent 1890
Jpg: antiquesandfineart.com
From: Antiques and
Fine Art
Mrs. Peter Chardon
Brooks,
whose maiden name was Sarah Lawrence, lived from 1845 to 1915. She was
the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Appleton and noted manufacturer and
philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, for whose family the Massachusetts
city of Lawrence is named.
In 1890, Sargent painted this portrait of Mrs. Brooks; he also painted
portraits of her husband Peter and their daughter Eleanor. This
portrait was recently given to the Peabody Essex Museum by several
donors who wish to remain anonymous.The Brookses were avid collectors
of art, and Mrs. Brooks is shown surrounded by some of their
neoclassical accessories. Seated before a small circular table known as
a gueridon en anthenienne, in
her right hand she is grasping a bronze figure of a nude female,
probably Victory.
(antiquesandfineart.com)
Notes:
Provenance
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