Mrs.
Graham Moore Robertson
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1894
Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, England
Oil on canvas
160.0 x 101.5 cm (63 x 40 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper left:) John S. Sargent
Inventory number: COMWG.568
jpg:
The
Athenaeum
Three-quarter-length
portrait of Mrs. Robertson , nee Marion Greatorex (d. 1907) seated on a
sofa with her left arm resting on the sofa's arm and holding a
handkerchief. A feather fan is on the sofa beside her. She wears a
black dress with high collar and necklace.
(SIRIS)
W. Graham Robertson
1894
(son to Mrs. Graham Moore Robertson)
Notes
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Robertson, Graham,
Preston, Kerrison,
Christie's, London, England Sale (July 22, 1949), lot 152.
Purchased 1951.
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002, no. 305.
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. 86.
Catalogue
JSS: 20051
Assession: COMWG.568
SIRIS IAP: 81690361
CMM: 947
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