Charles
Sprague Sargent
("Mug")
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter 1920
Owner?
Charcoal
Size?
Jpg: arboretum.harvard
Charles Sprague
Sargent (1841-1927)
A Harvard Grad. Was apponted director of Harvard's Botanic Garden in
1872.
In 1873 he was appointed the first director of the Arnold
Arboretum.
"The Arnold
Arboretum is a research
and educational institution. It manages a collection of hardy trees,
shrubs,
and vines located on 265 acres in Boston, Massachusetts and associated
herbarium and library collections. The grounds were planned and
designed
by the Arboretum's first director,  Charles
Sprague Sargent, in collaboration with the landscape architect,
Frederick
Law Olmsted [whom Sargent painted in 1895 --thumbnail] as part of
Boston's
Emerald Necklace park system Founded in 1872 and named for its
benefactor
James Arnold, the Arboretum continues to collect woody plants from
around
the world and offer horticultural education in accordance with its
mission.."
(arboretum.harvard)
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt
Davies, of
Kansas City, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for learning the correct date of this drawing.
Forum:
From: Matt Davies
Matt Da vies@JSSGallery.org
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005
Some time ago I purchased a book entitled, "Later Years of the Saturday
Club: 1870-1920," by M. A. DeWolfe Howe, published by Houghton Mifflin
Company in 1927. This drawing wa sin it and you can see the date is
1920.
From: Diana Johnson
<pedi ob
ius@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05
Nov 2002
Hello,
Natasha! I was visiting
the JSS Virtual Gallery website. An excellent site!
I found John Singer
Sargent's Charles
Sprague Sargent "Mug". Here's my question: Are these two
men
related? I searched the genealogy
page, and I didn't find Charles Sprague Sargent listed. I'm
still
curious, though. I thought he might not be listed...maybe he is a
distant relative.
Any information (or
referrals) you
can provide would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Diana Johnson
From: Natasha
Thanks Diana,
Yes they are
related, apparently
they're second cousins or more distant still (if my genealogy
page is complete -- it might not be).
Two sources I would
recommend you
looking up. On P. 262 of Stanley Olson's book, he writes: "He
[JSS]
supported his cousin, Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the great
arboriculturist
and director of the Arnold
Arboretum, in his campaign to compile a Sargent genealogy. He gave
the dinning-room wallpaper to the Sargent family seat in Gloucester,
the Sargent
House [museum]."
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