Cora, Countess of Strafford
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1908
Private collection
Oil on canvas
157.5 x 113 cm (62 x 44 1/2 in)
Inscription: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1908 signed
 Jpg: The Athenaeum

Cora Smith (d. 1932) married first to Samuel James Colgate; secondly, Henry William John Byng, fourth Earl of Strafford in 1898; thirdly, Martyn Thomas Kennard.
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Note:

Provenance:    
Formerly in the collection of Strafford, Countess of, until 1932.
Strafford, 6th Earl of, until 1951.
Bying, Elizabeth, Lady, Barnet, England until 1987.

Bibliography:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 547.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Illustration:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 201.

SIRIS # IAP 81690407
 

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Created 9/12/2008