John Singer Sargent's Edward Wyndham Tennant
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Edward Wyndham Tennant
1915
Private collection
Charcoal
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 Jpg: Friend of the JSS Gallery



Lt. The Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant
Photograph
Date?


Lt. The Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant
Photograph
Date?


From: Matt Davies  
Matt D avies@jssgallery.org
Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2002  

Here is Edward Wyndham Tennant (known to his friends as 'Bim'), son of Edward Tennant and Pamela Wyndham Tennant (later Lord and Lady Glenconner) His mother was one of the Wyndham Sisters whom Sargent portrayed in the painting sometimes referred to as 'The Three Graces,' and his father was the brother of Margot Asquith.  Edward Wyndham Tennant was killed in action in World War I in 1916.  The portrait was reproduced as the frontispiece to Edward Wyndham Tennant, A Memoir by his Mother Pamela Glenconner, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head,

 

 


The Wyndham Sisters 
1899

Notes:
Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me notes regarding this image. 

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