Mrs.
Arthur Knowles
and her Two Sons
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1902
Butler
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Oil on canvas
182.88
x 151.13 cm (72
X 59 1/2 in)
Inscription: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent - 1902
signed
Accession Number: 929-O-104
Jpg:
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From: Butler Institute of American Art
The subject of the painting is Mrs. Arthur Knowles, formerly Mildred
Clare Buchanan, third daughter of Captain James Buchanan of the 70th
regiment. Mildred Buchanan married Arthur Lees Knowles of Alvaston
Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire, who became High Sheriff of Lancashire in
1894.
The two children
are John Buchanan Knowles and Richard Arthur Lees Knowles, who were
seven and five years old, respectively, at the time of the sitting.
Mrs. Knowles and Her Children was undoubtedly painted in London, in
Sargent's Tite Street studio, his preferred location. Props, such as
the flowered fabric used as a backdrop and the canape on which the
subjects are seated are common to other paintings of the period and
also appear in photographs of Sargent's studio. . . .
(Valerie
Ann Leeds)
Portrait group of
Mrs. Arthur Knowles (d. 1913) and her two sons, John Buchanan (b. 1895)
and Richard Arthur Lees (b. 1897) seated together on a sofa. Mrs.
Knowles wears a lilac-gray skirt and bodice with billowy ruffles and
holds an open book on her lap. The boys wear pierrot costumes. A toy
horse is on the ground in the foreground. A floral hanging is at left.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Knowles, Arthur, until
1928.
Young, Howard,
J. J. Gillespie Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Purchased 1929.
References:
"Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of American
Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Art Institute, 1951.
Butler Institute of American Art, "Sixty years of collecting American
art: an index to the permanent collection," Youngstown, OH: The
Institute, 1979.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 413.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "Master Paintings from the Butler Institute
of American Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with
The Butler Institute of American Art, 1994, pg. 148.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "The Butler Institute of American Art Index
of the Permanent Collection," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of
American Art, 1997, pg. 150.
"Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Butler Institute of
American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1979,
pg. 30.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer
Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 68.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "Master Paintings from the Butler Institute
of American Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with
The Butler Institute of American Art, 11994, pg. 48.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "The Butler Institute of American Art Index
of the Permanent Collection," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of
American Art, 1997, pg. 150.
"Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Butler Institute of
American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1979,
pg. 30.
SIRIS # IAP 42830076
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