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Alma
Strettell
(or
"Stretell")
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
c. 1889
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
Jpg:
local
Alma Strettell, later Alma Strettell Harrison 1856-1939
Poet and writer,
she was intensly
interested in folk music and wrote or co-wrote:
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Spanish and
Italian Folk-Songs;
London, 1887
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Legends from
River and Mountain;
Carmen Sylva (H. M. Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell, Illustrated
by T. H. Robinson, George Allen, London, 1896, Greenish-grey cloth
illustrated
in black with gilt; top-edge gilt. No additional printings.
Hardcover.
328 pages: 41 b/w illustrations; 21cm.
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The Bard of
Dimbovitza - Roumanian
Folk Songs Collected from the Peasants Hélène Vacaresco,Translated
by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell, Harper & Brothers, London, 1914
Notes:
Exhibitions
Sargent's
Women, Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
- See the year in
review 1889
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Giovanni
Boldini
Portrait
of the Artist: Lawrence Alexander "Peter" Harrison
1902
(Husband
to Alma Strettell Harrison)
Sylvia
Harrison
1913
(daughter to Alma Strettell Harrison)
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