Sargent and Fashion
Fashion, identity, painting: explore the unique work of John Singer Sargent
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent 1856–1925
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1854 × 1308 mm
frame: 2270 × 1706 × 210 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922
- Reference
- N03708
Catalogue entry
N03708 ENA AND BETTY, DAUGHTERS OF ASHER AND MRS WERTHEIMER 1901
Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent 1901’ b.r.
Canvas, 73×51 1/2 (185·5×131).
Presented to the National Gallery by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922; transferred 1926.
Coll: As for N03705.
Exh: R.A., 1901 (178), as ‘Daughters of A. Wertheimer, Esq.’
Lit: Robert Ross, ‘The Wertheimer Sargents’ in Art Journal, 1911, p.8, repr. p.5; Downes, 1925, pp.46, 193, repr. facing p.200; Charteris, 1927, pp.164–5, 269, repr. facing p.166; Mount, 1955, pp.225, 436; McKibbin, 1956, p.130; Mount, 1957, pp.187, 345.
Repr: Royal Academy Pictures, 1901, p.132; Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1902, facing p.61; Wood, n.d., pl.7 (in colour).
Ena (or Helena, afterwards Mrs Robert M. Mathias, 1874–1935) in the light-coloured dress, and Betty (Mrs Euston A. Salaman, 1877–1953; married secondly, Major Arthur Ricketts, M.D.), on her sister's right-hand side, were the eldest and second eldest daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer (information from Mr John Mathias, son of Helena Mathias, 8 June 1961).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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