Mrs.
Joshua Montgomery Sears
(Sarah
Choate Sears)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1889
Museum of
Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas
Oil on canvas
147.6 x 96.8
cm
(58 1/8 x 38 1/8
in.)
Museum
purchase with
funds provided by George R. Brown in honor of his wife, Alice Pratt
Brown
Jpg: Pinakothek
of IAS
From: Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston
This portrait represents
John Singer
Sargent’s lifelong friend Sarah Sears, a photographer and patron of the
arts in Boston. Her alert pose . . . [captures], as one critic wrote,
“the
nervous tension of the age.”
(Museum
of Fine Arts)
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