Egerton Leigh Winthrop
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter
1901
Knickerbocker
Club, New York, New York
Oil on canvas
162.5 x 109.2 cm (64 x 43 in.)
Inscribed: (Lower left:) John S. Sargent/1901
Jpg: The
Pragmatic Romanticist
Was an attorney and a
president of the Knickerbocker Club
Description:
Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Egerton Leigh Winthrop
(1838-1916) wearing a morning coat and yellow waistcoat. He holds a
cane and top hat in his right hand.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Winthrop, Egerton Leigh, until 1916.
Winthrop, Egerton Leigh, Jr.,
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 405.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, pg. 60.
SIRIS IAP 81690471
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