Mary
Hope Mellor
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1911
Private
collection
Charcoal
61 x 48.2 cm. (24 x 19 in.)
signed and dated 'John S Sargent 1911' (lower right)
Jpg: Christies
Mary's
husband was Gavin Turnbull Simonds, much later 1st Viscount Simonds,
British judge, then Lord Chancellor.
(her
husband wikipedia)
Mrs Francis Hamilton Mellor
1912
(mother to Mary Hope Mellor)
Notes:
Sold
Sold Christies, 4 June 1999, London, King Street, £10,925
(or $18,166 USD), Sale # 6127, lot 15, was estimated £5,000 -
£8,000 ($8,314 - $13,302)
Provenance
The sitter, thence by descent.
Literature
D. McKibbon, Sargent's Boston, with a complete check list of Sargent's
portraits, Boston, 1956, p.109.
- See the year
in
review 1911
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