Lady
Margaret Spicer
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
c. 1906
Private collection
Oil on canvas
266.7 x 149.8 cm (105 x 59 in.)
Inscribed: (Lower left:) John S. Sargent
jpg: The
Athenaeum
Full-length
standing portrait of Lady Margaret Spicer, nee Margaret Mary Fane
(1870-1949) leaning on a pillar. She wears a cream-colored gown with
long train and gold edging and a gold sash. She married John Edmund
Philip Spicer
(SIRIS)
Notes
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Spicer, John, Lady, until 1949.
Spicer, Frank, Captain,
Christie's, SAle (July 18, 1975), lot 17.
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 527.
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings,
watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, pg. 181.
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Harper & Row,
1970, pl. 28.
SIRIS IAP 81890098
CMM 0113
- See the year in
review -- 1906
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