Daisy
Fellowes
(Honourable Mrs. Renginal "Daisy" Fellowes)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
Date?
Private
collection
Charcoal on
paper
sight: 61.0 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.)
Signed John S. Sargent, l.r.
Jpg: sothebys.com
From Sothebys (9/30/08)
Daisy Fellowes, an heiress
to the
Singer sewing machine fortune, is acknowledged as having been one of
the 20th century's most stylish and glamorous women. Born in Paris in
1890 of American and French descent, from the 1920's onwards Daisy was
one of the uncrowned queens of the social scene and a leader of fashion
as editor-in-chief of the French Harper's Bazaar and one of the major
patrons of couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. After a brief first marriage to
Jean Amédée Marie Anatole, Prince de Broglie, she married
the Hon.
Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes, a banker cousin of Winston Churchill, in 1919
(sothebys)
Note:
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter to the present owner
CATALOGUE NOTE
Daisy
Fellowes, an heiress to the
Singer sewing machine fortune, is acknowledged as having been one of
the 20th century's most stylish and glamorous women. Born in Paris in
1890 of American and French descent, from the 1920's onwards Daisy was
one of the uncrowned queens of the social scene and a leader of fashion
as editor-in-chief of the French Harper's Bazaar and one of the major
patrons of couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. After a brief first marriage to
Jean Amédée Marie Anatole, Prince de Broglie, she married
the Hon.
Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes, a banker cousin of Winston Churchill, in 1919.
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