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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
1889
Natasha Essay
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
221 x 114.3 cm
Presented by Sir Joseph Duveen 1906

Dame Alice Ellen Terry, copy


 

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (sketch)
1889

Ellen Terry Memorial Museum
Smallhythe Place
Smallhythe, Tenterden, Kent
Oil on canvas
53.5 x 40.6 cm (21.06 x 15.98 in.)


Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr
c. 1889 
Natasha
Speed Art Museum
Louisille, Kentucky
Oil on canvas 
64.5 x  50.5 cm (25 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Inscription u.l.: to Mrs. Comyns Carr
Inscription u.r.: John S Sargent
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and 
Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, No. 51.13

 
George Henschel
1889
Natasha
Private collection
Oil on canvas 
63.5 x 53.3 cm  (25 x 21 in.) 
Upper left:) to my friend Henschel (Upper right:) John S. Sargent. '89 signed 

 
Mrs. Edmond Kelly
1889
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg,  Massachusetts
Oil on canvas 
111.8 x 81.3 cm (44 x 32 in.)
Anonymouse loan, 1985.15P



Cicely Horner
(later Mrs. George Lambton )
c. 1889 
Private collection 
Oil on canvas laid down 
61.0 x 40.6 cm (24 x 16 in)
Signed u/l: John S. Sargent and dated u/r: 1910 
 
Portrait of Claude Monet
1889
Natasha
National Academy of Design, NYC
Oil on canvas 
16  x 13  in.

 
Painting of Gabriel Fauré
1889 
Natasha
Musée de la musuque, Paris
Oil on canvas
61 x 54.6 cm (24 x 211/2in.)

 
Mademoiselle Roger-Jourdain
1889
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
60 x 44.9 cm (23 5/8 x 17 11/16 in)
Inscribed ul: a mon amie Madame Jouedain
Inscribed ur: John S Sargent / 89
Accession Number: 576

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Charles Stuart Forbes
c. 1889
Natasha
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
San Marino, California
Oil on canvas
73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.)

 



Javanese Dancer
1889
Natasha
Private collection
Oil on canvas
172.2 x 80 cm (68 x 31 1/2 in.)

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A Javanese Girl at Her Toilet
1889 
Stevenson Scott Kaminer 
Oil on canvas 
25 1/2 x 21 in. 

 
A Javanese Dancer
1889 
Private collection
Oil
177.8 x 81.3 cm (70 x 32 in.)

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Javanese dancer sketch
1889 ?
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Graphite pencil on paper
9.9 x 13 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Gift of Miss Mildred Howells 50.3834

 
Two Women in a Cafe
Late 1880s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Charcoal on off-white wove paper
22.1 x 28.3 cm (8 11/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions: [on verso at lower left]: [zigzag lines]
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.118)
 
Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond
1889
Natasha
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
184.8 x 97.8 cm
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent in memory of her brother through the National Art Collections Fund 1929

 
Violet Fishing
1889
Natasha
Collection of the Ormond Family
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 53.3 cm (28 x 21 in.)

 
A Portrait of Violet
1889 
Private collection 
Oil on canvas 
 59.69 x 38.1 cm (23.5 x 15 in.) 

 
Woman Sketch
1889 ?
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Graphite on off-white wove paper bound in a beige canvas sketchbook
15.2 x 24.2 cm
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Number: 1937.7.26

 
Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury
1889
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 63.5 cm (29 1/2 x 25 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950

 
Two Girls on a Lawn
c. 1889 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Oil on canvas 
Size?

 
Violet Resting on the Grass
1889 
Private collection 
Watercolor 
 24.77 x 34.29 cm (9.75 x 13.5 in.) 

 
Paul Helleu Lying in a Field
c. 1889

Trustees of the British Museum, London

Pastel on paper
26 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8)

Presented by Mrs. Ormond and Miss Sargent


Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)
1889 
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Pencil on paper
33.7 x 22.9 cm (13 1/4 x 9 in.)

 
Paul Helleu Sketching
1889
Natasha Essay
The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.
Museum Collection Fund

 
Portrait of Paul Helleu
c. 1885-1889
Natasha Essay
Sargent at Harvard, (Fogg Art Museum, NY)
Pastel on paper
49.4 x 44.8 cm (sight)
Bequest of Mrs Annie Swan Coburn

 
Sketch of a Man (Paul Helleu)
Date? 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Charcoal on paper
29.5 x 23.5 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Ormond in memory of their brother John Singer Sargent 28.956

 
Madame Helleu
c. 1889 
Private collection
Oil on canvas
102.9 x 82.6 cm (40 1/2 x 32 1/2 in)

 
A Boating Party
1889  
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Oil on canvas
86.4 x 91.4 cm (34 5/8 x 36 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs Houghton P. Metcalf in memory of her husband Houghton P. Metcalf

 

Thistles
1885 / 89

Art Institute of Chicago
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.8 cm (22 x 28 1/4 in.)
Gift of Brooks McCormick, 1996.446


Autumn on the River 
(Miss Violet Sargent)
1889  
Brooklyn Museum?, NY
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.)

 
Two Girls In a Punt
1889
Private Collection
Oil on canvas
14 x 17.5 in.


 


Violet Sargent and Flora Priestley
1889

Private Collection
Oil on Canvas
55.9 x 41.9 cm (22 x 161/2 in.)



Miss Priestley
c. 1889 
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 63.5 cm
Presented by Miss Emily Sargent in memory of her brother through the National Art Collections Fund 1929

 
Portrait of Dorothy Barnard
1889
Natasha
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 39.4 cm 
Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, PD54-1949

 

Polly Barnard
(A.K.A Girl in White Muslin)

1889

Private collection
Oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 26 3/4 in
Signed upper right: To Miss Anstruther Thomson / John S. Sargent


A Game of Bowls, Ightham Mote, Kent
1889 
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Oil on canvas
142.9 x 229.2 cm (56 1/4 x 90 1/4 in.)

 
Miss Elsie Palmer 
1889-90 
Natasha Essay
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 
Oil on canvas 
190.8 x 114.6 cm (75 1/8 x 45 1/8 in.)

Sketch of Miss Elsie Palmer


 

Elsie Palmer
1889-90 
Private collection
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 62.3 cm (29.49 x 24.53 in.)



Alma Strettell
(or "Stretell")
c. 1889 
Natasha
Private collection
Oil on canvas
66 x 54.6 (6 x 21 1/2 in.)
Inscribed ul: to my friend Alma Strettell
Inscription ur: John S. Sargent



Clementina Anstruther-Thomson
1889

Private collection
Oil on canvas
106.7 x 74 cm (42 x 29 1/8 in.)
Inscribed: (Lower left, inscription cropped on left:) Anstruther Thomson/John S. Sargent (Lower right:) 1889


Portrait of Miss Clementina
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

 
1889                        (33 years old)
Year In Context

January: John paints Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth. He had been taken by her performance in the play and he shows the painting at the New Gallery, London. He does at least 3 other paintings of her in that role. And he paints musician George Henschel.


March-April: he's off to Paris to serve on the jury of the Salon with Claude Monet. As he's in Paris he paints some friends.

After Edouard Manet's death, he works with Monet to raise money for the purchase of Manet's Olympia, the painting to go to the Louvre and the funds to be donated to Manet's widow who is near penniless. Sargent himself, donated  1,000 francs. Besides the altruistic reasons, it is very probable that both felt a personal debt to Manet and his painting.

March 31st: Paris is abuzz with excitement - the public gathers with jeers and cheers for the inauguration of Gustave Eiffel's tower. The Paris Exposition Universal of 1889 is underway. Sargent exhibits six paintings in the American section where he is awarded the grand prix and made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government. While there, he takes in the sights seeing the Javanese dancers perform and does studies of them. He meets La Carmencita (a Spanish gypsy dancer) whom he would later paint. 

On April 25th Dr. Sargent (John's father) dies at the age of 69. In his life he had pursued a successful medical career in Philadelphia until 1854. When he and his wife, Mary Newbold Singer Sargent, traveled to Europe -- never to return to live. John had spent a lot of time with his father after his first stroke.

May thru June: He exhibits at the Society of American Artists, New York, showing portraits of Mrs. E.D. Millet and Mrs. Henry Marquand.

July: he's back in Paris for the Exposition Universal.




Cancels a visit with Monet at Giverny and goes back to England with his family (his mother and two sisters) at Fladbury Rectory, Pershore, on the river Avon (which was only 9 miles from the Broadway colony).  Guest who come to visit include, in part, Paul Helleu and his wife, Ben del Castillo, Vernon Lee, Kit Anstruther-Thomson and Miss Priestley.

He paints Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond is his sister Violet Sargent Ormond (before she was married). She would have been about 19 years old. Paints Paul Helleu Sketching. Then again Paul and his wife with possibly Sargent's sister in A Boating Party.

He has a relationship with Miss Priestley and paints her on a number of occasions. Marriage is rumored between them by others though it is not clear whether she refused to marry him or it was he who was reluctant to marry her.








August: he visits the Harrisons at Ightham Mote house, near Sevenoaks in Kent. The house had been rented by Mrs. Palmer, an expatriate American from Colorado, and John  begins work on a portrait of her daughter  Miss Elsie Palmer as well as paints A Game of Bowls.  Afterwards returns to Broadway. 

On December 4th, he sails for New York taking his sister Violet with him. She had been in a relationship with Francis Ormond whom Mrs. Sargent (John's mother) didn't approve. It was their intent to separate the two lovers and for John to introduce her to Americans. 
FootnoteSee footnote 1
 

In America John begins a series of portrait commissions.


 
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