Dates ca. 1889 (?). 
Medium Oil on canvas. 
Dimensions 26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm) 
Inscription (Across top:) to my friend Miss Priestley John S. Sargent signed 

Description Bust portrait of Flora Priestley (1859-1944) wearing a dress with high collar. 

Provenance Formerly in the collection of Barton, R. C., Glendalough House, Ireland 
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York New York 

References Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 226. Antiques (Dec. 1976): pg. 1206. 
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. 

Illustration Image on file. 
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 228. 
Antiques (Dec. 1976): pg. 1206. 

Control No IAP 81690340 

Owner Anonymous Collection. _za2152a8d0

ca. 1889. 
Medium Oil on canvas. 
Dimensions 18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm) 
Inscription (Across top:) to Miss Priestley John S. Sargent signed 

Description Bust portrait of Flora Priestley (1859-1944) painted by lamplight. Her head is turned to the left and she looks down, her eyes partially closed. She wears a black dress with a low-cut neck. 

Subject Portrait female --Priestley, Flora--Bust 

Owner Anonymous Collection. _za2152a8d0 

Provenance Formerly in the collection of Ormond Family, 
Pitman, Mrs., 

Remarks In Ormond (1970) this portrait is referred to as Flora Priestly Singing by Candlelight. However, in his 1998 catalog, he states that this is not a portrait of her singing. 
References Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 227. 
Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. 
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970, pg. 243.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. 

Illustration Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 229. 
Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Abbeville Press, 1982, fig. 170. 

Control No IAP 81690343 

Date: 1910 
Charcoal on paper. 
24 3/8 x 18 3/4 inches (620 x 475 mm.) 

Inscriptions/Markings: Signed and dated by the artist in charcoal along the bottom edge, "1910 John S. Sargent". 
Provenance: Ernest Schelling; Helen Schelling Scholz (Mrs. Janos Scholz). 
Associated Names: Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939, former owner. 
Scholz, János, Mrs., former owner. 
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Janos Scholz. 

Record ID: 143204 
Accession Number: 1964.24 

Publications on: Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 169. 
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fourteenth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965 & 1966. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, p. 133. 

[entry found by Natasha 2/21/2003]

Undated

Location: Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS) 
Call Number: Misc Artists 

Record ID: 131447 
Accession Number: MA 3577 
Author/Artist: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. 
Biographical Data: American painter. 
Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Oscar Wilde, 
Date of Writing: [n.d.]. 
Summary: Inviting him to dine to meet artists and Paul Bourget. 
Description: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo) 
Associated Names: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, recipient. 
Prescott, Marjorie Wiggin, 1893-1980, former owner. 
Credit: Gift; Frederick R. Koch; 1981. 
Dept./Collection: 

[entry found by Natasha 2/21/2003] 
 

c 1905 
Oil on canvas with some impasto areas. 
58 x 36 inches (1473 x 914 mm.) 
Inscriptions/Markings: Signed and dated at upper right "John S. Sargent. 1906." 

From: Matt Davies
<matt.c.davies@kc.frb.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 

Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. Harper Perennial Books, 2000.

p. 649, in the footnote - "Sargent had done a portrait of Jack's [John Pierpont Morgan] wife, Jessie, in the spring of 1905. He asked her to bring a box of dresses to the first sitting so that he could decide what looked best in his studio's light, and set up a mirror in which she should watch him paint. She found it 'thrilling. . . He is very agreeable. I had 13 sittings.' As the portrait neared completion, Jack asked Sargent whether, 'as you are an American, it might be possible that your pictures could come into America free of duty.' A few weeks later, the banker urged the artist 'to do whatever is necessary at the Consulate to see that the picture comes through free of duty, and I shall be very much obliged to you for all your trouble.' The portrait, for which Jack paid GBP 1,050 - about $5,000 - is now at the Pierpont Morgan Library."
 

Record ID: 214106 
Accession Number: AZ165 
Author/Artist: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. 

Notes: Contrary to the artist's inscribed date of 1906, Mrs. Morgan apparently sat for Sargent between 1904 and 1905 when she was 36 years old. 

Provenance: Mrs. J.P. Morgan; by descent to her son, Junius S. Morgan (donor's father); by descent to John P. Morgan, II. 
Associated Names: Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner. 
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner. 
Morgan, John P. (John Pierpont), 1918- former owner. 

Credit: Gift of John P. Morgan, II. 

Dept./Collection: Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Drawings and Prints 

[entry found by Natasha 2/21/2003] 
 

library donor

Letter from Lynn Hammette, designer at the Library of Congress, lham@loc.gov,  1/10/02, to Natasha

Provenance:

The sitter’s father, Sir Carl Meyer; thence by descent; offered for sale by Christie’s, London, June 20, 1996 as lot 45; The Berger Collection

Exhibited:

600 Years of British Painting: The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum October 19, 1998-March 28, 1999; reproduced in the accompanying catalogue on p. 161.

The sitter was the daughter of Mr. (later Sir) Carl Meyer, and had been portrayed at age 11 with her mother and brother in Sargent’s 1896 portrait, Mrs. Carl Meyer and Children. At the time of this drawing (1908), Sir Carl Meyer was the chairman of the diamond company De Beers, and his daughter was surely a prize for any suitor. In 1909 she married St. John Lambert. 

According the exhibit catalogue: “As ever in his portraits, Sargent aims for an image that transcends likeness in favour of character. There is still a reminder in the face of the serious, elegant young lady of the little girl he had painted eleven years earlier.” (p. 161)
 

information from Matt Davies

"Head, slightly to the left, looking at the spectator; vignetted."

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury
1915
Black Chalk on Paper 23 ½ x 18 ½ in. (59.7 x 47 cm.) sight
Signed and dated along the bottom ‘John S. Sargent, 1915’

"Head, three-quarters to the left, looking slightly to the spectator’s right; vignetted. It pairs with  portrait of Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, Marchioness of Salisbury, also drawn in 1915."
 

Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, Marchioness of Salisbury
1915
Black Chalk on Paper
23 ½ x 18 ½ in. (59.7 x 47 cm.) sight
Signed and dated along the top ‘John S. Sargent, 1915’

"Head and shoulders fronting the spectator; vignetted. As mentioned above, this pairs with the drawing above of the fifth Marquess of Salisbury." The sitter, Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, was the wife of Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury.
 

Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne Cecil, Baron Quickswood (1869-1956)
1920
Charcoal on Paper
24 ½ x 18 ¼ in. (60.2 x 46.4 cm.)
Signed and dated across the bottom in large letters ‘John S. Sargent 1920’

“Head and shoulders, to the left, looking at the spectator; he is balding, he has a slight moustache, and wears a stiff upright wing collar, dark tie, coat and waistcoat. The drawing is vignetted. . .” The drawing is reproduced in the catalogue as illustration 137, on page 279. The Hatfield House collection holds a letter from Sargent dated 22 December 1920, in which he sets a sitting with Lord Hugh for December 31. A second letter, dated 14 January 1921, thanks Lord Hugh for the check he sent to Sargent – for £80.
 

Thanks to Matt Davies a friend of the JSS Gallery for the info
Added Thu, 27 May 2004 

April 12, 1914
 

From: Sarah Wickham
<sarah.wic kh  am@rncm.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 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...

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

Thought you might be interested.