Hercules
Brabazon Brabazon
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1893
National Portrait Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
73.3 x 43.1 cm (28 7/8 x 17 in.)
Inscription: (Upper left:) to Mr Brabazon (Upper
right:) John S. Sargent signed
Assession: NPG 5706P
Jpg:
.the-athenaeum
Painted for
Hercules himself by Sargent. Not sure if this was a gift or if Hercules
commissioned it. Some seven years later he would paint him again which
Sargent kept for his own collection.
Hercules Brabazon
1900
Note:
Dated by Charles
Merrill Mount
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon, until 1906.
Barbizon House (Croal Thomson), London, England Sale
Deering, Charles,
Danielson, Barbara Deering,
Sotheby's, New York, New York Sale (Dec. 8, 1983), lot 200.
References:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002, no. 296.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002, pg. 74.
SIRIS # IAP 81690079
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