John Singer Sargent

Miss Eliza Wedgwood and Miss Sargent Sketching

1908

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Artist
John Singer Sargent 1856–1925
Medium
Watercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions
Support: 502 x 356 mm
frame: 693 x 546 x 20 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Bequeathed by William Newall 1922
Reference
N03658

Catalogue entry

N03658 MISS ELIZA WEDGWOOD AND MISS SARGENT SKETCHING c. 1905–14

Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ b.l.
Watercolour, 19 3/4×14 (50·5×35·5).
Bequeathed by William Newall 1922.

Charteris records (1927, p.170) that Sargent went abroad every autumn after his mother's death in 1905, to go on sketching expeditions, and was always accompanied by his sister Emily and either the de Glehns or Miss Eliza Wedgwood, or the Misses Barnard, or Mrs Ormond and her children. An oil portrait of Miss Wedgwood's mother was shown at the N.E.A.C., winter 1909 (55). This watercolour sketch must date from between 1905 and 1914, when the war put a temporary end to the artist's continental tours. Another watercolour of the same sitters, probably done on the same occasion as N03658, belongs to F. Guillaume Ormond of Truro.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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