From:  Sarah Wickham 
(sa rah. wick ham@rncm.ac.uk)
Date: 6/8/2004

I'm the archivist at Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK).  We have a pencil sketch by Sargent of a former violin student, Lena Kontorovich. It's not an amazing piece of art but...

It was owned by her family and given to us in the 1990s.  Signed "To Mlle Kontorovich ?her ?admirer? John S. Sargent April 12th 1914"

I know very little about Lena Kontorovich and am hoping to be able to remedy this in the near future.

Incidentally, I'm very attached to Sargent personally: my step-great-grandfather is depicted in Sargent's Garden Study of the Vickers Children and a step cousin is interested in tracing the picture's provenance (it's been at the Flint Institute since 1972 but prior to that I'm not clear). 

With best wishes

Sarah
 
 

Notes:
Special thanks to Sarah Wickham, with Royal
Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK),  friends of the JSS Gallery, for sending the image and info. 

 
• See the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK)
• See the year in review  1913-1914