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Self
Portrait 1886
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1886
Aberdeen
Art Gallery
and Museums, UK
Oil on
canvas
34.5 x
29.7 cm
signed
and dated:
John S. Sargent 1886
Jpg:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
From the
Aberdeen Art Gallery
One
of a series of ninety-one uniformly sized portraits and self-portraits
of artists, collected by the Aberdeen granite merchant and patron of
art, Alexander Macdonald (1831-1884). Alexander Macdonald died in 1884,
but his wife, Hope Gordon Macdonald, continued to collect portraits of
artists after his death. Macdonald had not owned any work by Sargent
but they were both friendly with Joseph Farquharson and it may have
been through contact with him, or with Sir James Murray that she
determined to acquire a likeness of Sargent. Sargent was thirty when he
painted this self portrait. Incorrectly dated by Charteris to 1907.
(Aberdeen
Art Gallery)
Notes:
Exhibitions
John
Singer
Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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