Miss
Daisy Leiter
(Other title: Marguerite Hyde Leiter) (Later Countess of Suffolk and
Berkshire)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1898
Kenwood,
Hampstead Lane, London, England
Oil on canvas
228.6 x 119.4 cm (90 x 47 in)
Inscription: (Lower left:) John S. Sargent (Lower right:)
1898 signed
part of The Iveagh Bequest of Kenwood
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From: Matt Davies
Date: Mon, 5 Aug
2002
Margaret ('Daisy') Leiter
was the
daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago whom made his money in the dry
goods
business and real estate.
Her sister Mary
Leiter was the first wife of George
Nathaniel Curzon. While Curzon and Mary were Viceroy and
Vicereine
of India, Daisy paid a visit to her sister. There in India she
met
and fell in love with one of Curzon's aides de camp. The pair
were
married, and they were later Earl and Countess of Suffolk and
Berkshire.
George
Nathaniel, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
1914
(broter-in-law
to Miss Daisy Leiter)
Notes:
The Work of John Singer
Sargent,
which I believe was published in 1903.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Leiter, Marguerite Hyde (Daisy), until
1968.
Bequest of Howard, Greville, Mrs., 1994.
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. 358.
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. 145.
SIRIS #: IAP 81690265.
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