Pauline
Astor
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
c. 1898
The William
Morris Collection, on loan to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical
Gardens in
San Marino, Ca.
Oil on canvas
98 x 50 in.
Jpg: Kathleen
Cohen
"This is Sargent's
largest and most impressive Full-Length Portrait in a Landscape
Setting"
(The Huntington's description on notecards and posters)
From: Traditional Fine Art
Online
"Pauline Astor
(1880-1970), who sat
for her portrait by Sargent, was the eldest daughter of the Amencan
financier
William Waldorf Astor, who emigrated from New York to London in 1891.
Miss
Astor is shown dressed in a virginal white gown and silver-blue,
fur-lined
cioak, holding a fur muff; she stands in an autumnal garden and is
accompanied
by her King Charles spaniel Mossie, who tugs at her cloak. Although
only
in her late teens and not yet married, this self-possessed, elegant
young
woman had become mistress of her father's estate, Cliveden, upon the
death
of her mother in 1894. Despite her adult responsibilities, Miss Astor
is
presented by Sargent as a young woman in all of her youthful beauty,
with
her future fully ahead of her."
(Traditional
Fine Art Online)
Pauline's brother, William (Jr.) would marry Nancy Witcher Langhorne whom Sargent painted in 1909
Lady
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
1909
(Sister
inlaw to Pauline Astor)
Notes:
Sold
Sothebys;
12/3/1997; Lot 13; $1,982,500
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