Portrait of Miss Clementina   
John Singer Sargent -- American painter  
1889
Private collection
 Oil on canvas    
81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)
Inscribed: (On reverse, in sitter's hand:) To my dear niece/Grizel Bonde
 Jpg: Askart.com

This painting is seen as a study for the more finished portrait three-quarters length.

Miss Clementina was a friend of Vernon Lee.


Clementina Anstruther-Thomson
1889

Note: 

Sold Sothebys; 11/29/1995; Lot 38; $40,250 

Provenance:    
Formerly in the collection of Bonde, Baroness, Charlton, Fife, Scotland

Bibliography:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 217.
Sotheby's Sale 5584 (May 28, 1987), lot 212.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 222.

Illustration:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 222.
Sotheby's Sale 5584 (May 28, 1987), lot 212.
    
SIRIS IAP 81690422
 

 

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