Senator
Calvin Brice
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1898 July 18th-28th - Painted London
Allen County Historical Society, Lima, Ohio
Oil on canvas
147.6 x 93.3 cm (58 1/8 x 36 3/4 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1898 (On
reverse, in another hand:) Painted London July 18th-28th 1898
Accession Number: 878.1
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Senator Calvin
Stewart, (b 1845 - d 1898) Served as chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, 1889; then one term as Senator from 1891-1897 as a
Democrat from Ohio, did not run for reelection. Died five months after
this painting in New York December 15, 1898.
(bioguide.congress.gov
10-19-08)
Description:
Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Calvin Brice (1845-1898)
holding a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand and a pair of gloves in
his left hand, which is at his side. He wears a suit with a red flower
in a buttonhole.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Brice, Calvin,
Brice, Helen Olivia,
Gift of Hobbs, W. M., Mrs. (Monica), 1950.
Gift of Briggs, F. M., Mrs. (Kate), 1950.
Gift of Allen, Eltham, Mrs. (Jean), 1950.
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sixty Ninth Annual Exhibition,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1900, no. 18.
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. 346.
Allen County Historical Society, 1971.
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. 132.
SIRIS IAP 41810001
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