Mrs. Augustus Hemenway
John Singer Sargent -- American painter
1890
Private collection   
Oil on canvas   
77.5 x 64.2 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1890
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Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Augustus Hemenway nee Harriet Dexter Lawrence (1858-1960) wearing a black dress and holding a white flower.
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Note: 

Provenance:    
Formerly in the collection of Hemenway, Augustus, Mrs., until 1960.
Richard, Auguste, Mrs. (Hetty Hemenway),
Rankine, Paul Scott, Mrs. (Elvine Richard), until 1980.
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York 1981.
Manoogian, Richard,
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York 1984.
Ireland, Charles W., Mrs., 1984.
Adelson Galleries, New York, New York 1993.

Bibliography:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 263.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Illustration:    
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 46.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956, p. 40.
    
SIRIS IAP 81690018

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Created 10/20/2008