Mildred
Carter
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1908
Owner?
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm. (40 x 30 in.)
signed 'John S. Sargent' (upper left)
Jpg: Christies
Mildred Carter
was the
daughter of American diplomat John Ridgeley Carter and Alice Morgan
Carter. Two years after this painting she would marry Viscount Acheson
in 1910, becoming Countess of Gosford on her husband's accession to the
title as fifth Earl in 1922. (Christies)
John had first painted her father in
1901:
John Ridgeley
Carter
1901
(Father
to Mildred Carter)
Note:
Sold
Sold Christies, 30 November 2006, New York, Rockefeller Plaza,
$3,936,000, Lot 67, Sale # 1731, was estimiated $1,500,000 - $2,500,000
and was sold from the Patrick B. Acheson Family Trust
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter.
Literature
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits,
New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, p. 202, no. 548, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, 1909.
London, Royal Academy Winter Exhibition: Works by the Late John S.
Sargent, R.A., 1926 (as The Countess of Gosford).
San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honors,
Sargent and Boldini, October 1959 (as The Countess of Gosford).
- See the year
in
review 1908
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