Lady
Cynthia
Charteris
1909
Private
collection
Charcoal
Size?
Jpg:
Friend of the JSS Gallery
From: Matt Davies
Matt D
avies@jssgallery.org
Date: Sun,
23
Jun 2002
Cynthia Charteris
(1909),
daughter
of
Hugo and Mary Elcho
(later
the Earl
and Countess of Wemyss), both members of the
Souls. Mary (Cynthia's
mother) was
painted by Sargent in 'The
Wyndham
Sisters'. Her
bother was Hugo Charteris.
Cynthia later
married the
Prime Minister
Herbert Asquith's son (by his first wife) and Margot
Asquith's step-son, who was also named Herbert.
(This is is from
Cynthia
Charteris'
book Happly I May Remember, London: James Barrie, 1950.)
Fri, 21 Feb
2003
This drawing was
exhibited at the 1916
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries.
After attending the show Cynthia commented in her diary:
"We went to
the
Grafton Gallery
to see the exhibition of Sargent drawings. It's a real nightmare to see
so many of one's friends so blatantly depicted staring at one from four
walls - I think the one of me presents the foulest woman I have ever
seen."
(Asquith,
Lady
Cynthia. Diaries
1915-1918. With a foreword by L. P. Hartley. London: Hutchinson of
London,
1968. p. 174 )
Notes:
Special thanks to Matt
Davies, of
Kansas City, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for sending me notes regarding this image.
- See the year
in
review 1909
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