1899
(43 years old)
Year
In Context
On February 13th,
works on The Wyndham
Sisters at their house in Belgrave Square, London.
February 20 thru
March: he holds
his second one-man show at the Copley Hall, Boston (Boston Art
Students'
Association) 110 works -- fifty-three oils, sixty drawings, and
forty-one
sketches.
April: he's put on
the "Hanging Committee"
of the Royal Academy which is considered the most prestigious and
important
committee.
Having some
difficulty with moldings,
he travels to Paris and talks to Augustus
Saint-Gaudens about casting the Crucifix in Dogma of Redemption for
the Boston murals.
His death is
erroneously reported
in American newspapers. He sends a telegram to Mrs.
Isabella Stewart Gardner: "Alive and kicking, Sargent."
December: he takes
back Professor
Johannes Wolff (1897) as his diploma painting to the Royal
Academy
and submits An Interior in Venice (1898) in its place. JSS had
painted
it for Mrs. Curtis but she disliked it. She felt she had been
portrayed
too old and her son as being disrespectful in his stance.
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