Elizabeth
Asquith "mug"
(later
Elizabeth
Bibesco)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American
painter
1914
Private
collection
Charcoal
24 X 16 in
Jpg:
Paul Darby
From: Paul
Darby
darby and
joan1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 22
May 2004
After
24
years my wife
and I finally had a chance to visit her home in Paris from which her
daughter
had recently been removed to a nursing home. We met a relative who by
chance
was in town and looked around the apartment - it was a kind of shrine
to
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco as far as I could see - everything that had
been
on the walls in 1920 was still on the walls - including two
portrait
drawings by Sargent - one of Elizabeth Asquith and the other of her
brother
Anthony (the movie director) done in 1914 when she was 17 and he was 12.
Unthinkingly
I only
snapped a picture of Elizabeth (I was too excited to finally see the
Vuillard
of Elizabeth to look at much else. Anyway here is the portrait of
Elizabeth
Asquith (did she use it in the 1916
show she organized?) taken through glass at a bit of an angle. The
two portraits (image size) were probably about 24 X 16 inches and were
framed to show lots of margin.
Perhaps
you
remember
my interest in Augustus John's "Princess Bibesco".
Regards,
Paul
Augustus
John
Princess
Antoine Bibesco
(Elizabeth
Bibesco, nee Asquith)
1924
Elizabeth
Asquith
1919
Elinor M. Barnard
Elizabeth
Asquith (Bibesco)
1907
Note:
Special thanks to Paul
Darby, of
Toronto,
Canada, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for sending me the image of Sargent's
drawing.
Forum:
From: Joan
Powell
Jackson
Joan jackson
home@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 May
2004
I have just read
the note
from Darby
concerning Elizabeth Asquith. As you know, my intrest is in the
English-American
artist Elinor
M. Barnard. I have recently learned that Elinor was in Washington
D.C.
in March of 1922 painting the 21 month old daughter, Priscilla, of
Elizabeth
Asquith Bibesco and the Prince. Priscilla is or was married to Simon
Hodgson
and resides in Paris. Elinor was friends with three Tenant sisters-Lucy
Tennant Graham- Smith, Charlotte-Lady Ribblesdale,and Margot Tennant
Asquith.
I would certainly like to know the location of that baby's
portrait.
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