Mrs. Colin
Hunter
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1896
The Utah
Museum of Fine
Arts, Salt Lake City
Oil on canvas
94 x 62.2 cm
(37 x 24 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper left:) to my friend Colin Hunter (Upper
right:) John S. Sargent 1896
Purchased
with funds
from the Marriner
S.
Eccles Foundation,
The Friends of the Art Museum,
Mrs. Nathan
Porter,
Emma Eccles Jones and
from the
estate of Dolores
Dore Eccles,
Accession
Number: 1996.33.1
Jpg: Utah
Museum of
Fine Arts
Waist-length seated
portrait of Mrs. Colin Hunter, nee Isabella Rattray Young, was the wife
of an artist. She is wearing a
black dress with large sleeves with white stripes. Her father was John
H Young (a surgeon and dentist) and they were married November
20, 1873 in Glasgow. They had two sons and two daughters (that I know
of). The oldest son John Young Hunter also became an artist.
Her husband, Colin Hunter
(1841-1904) was a Scottish marine painter and engraver. He became RWS
in 1882, and was elected ARA in 1884 (Bob Speel)
and had certainly been well
established by the time Sargent paints his wife. He first exhibited at
the RA in 1868 and would continue to exhibit over the years a steady
stream of paintings numbering 97 in all. Critically his art seemed to
get traction in 1874 and public collections began to acquire his work.
He had moved to London in 1872 and then built himself a nice house with
a studio on Melbury Road, Kensington.
In his Hunter’s bio, it
is said that “some time” before he died he had a stroke and his right
hand became paralyzed.[1] It’s
quite possible that
in 1896 he had been afflicted.
Note:
1) Dictionary of National
Biography; P. 328; edited by Sidney Lee - Biography & Autobiography
- 2001 - 690 pages
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Hunter, Colin,
Milch Galleries, New York, New York
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Sotheby's, New York, New York Sale (May 27, 1993), lot 34. $31,625
Adelson Galleries, Inc., New
York, New York
Bibliography:
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, "American art, challenging traditional
interpretations: selections from the permanent collection," Salt Lake
City: The Museum, 2003, pg. 84.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002, no. 330.
Detroit Institute of Arts, collection catalog, 1965.
Illustration:
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, "American art, challenging traditional
interpretations: selections from the permanent collection," Salt Lake
City: The Museum, 2003, pg. 85.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002, pg. 117.
SIRIS IAP 24150382
CMM 964 - Mrs. Colin Hunter, inscribed: To my friend Cohn Hunter John
S. Sargent 1896. 36 x 24, Detroit Art Institute.
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