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Mrs Philip
Leslie Agnew
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1902
Tate
Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
90.8 x 74.3
cm
Bequeathed
by Mrs Philip
Leslie Agnew 1957
Jpg: Tate
Gallery
Read a letter describing
a sitter's
experience (possibly Mrs. Philip Leslie Agnew) as she is painted by
Sargent
(see
letter).
From: The Tate
This portrait was commissioned in 1902 by Philip Leslie Agnew
(1863–1938), the Chairman and Managing Director of Bradbury Agnew &
Co., the proprietors of Punch magazine. He was the grandson of Thomas
Agnew, the founder of the firm of art dealers. His wife, whom he
married in 1889, was Alexandra Georgette, the daughter of Ewan
Christian, and this portrait shows her at the age of thirty-seven. She
died in 1957 on the day before her ninety-second birthday.
(Tate
Gallery)
Notes:
Bibliography:
Charteris, 1927, p.270; Mount, 1955, p.437; McKibbin, 1956, p.81; Mount, 1957, p.346.
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and
Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,
London 1964, II (Image published)
Exhibitions:
R.A., 1903 (262), as ‘Mrs Philip Agnew’; R.A., winter 1926 (48).
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