John Singer Sargent
Mathilde Townsend
1907153.3 x 102.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed upper left: John S. Sargent
Dated upper right: 1907
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the sitter, Mrs Sumner Welles
Literature
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, New Haven and London, 2003, nr. 535
Provenance
The sitter's mother, Mrs. Richard H. Townsend (died 1931, née Mary Scott), Washington, D.C.
by inheritance to the sitter, Mathilde Townsend Gerry Welles (1888-1949), Washington, D.C.
bequest 1949 to NGA, with life interest to her husband, Sumner Welles (1892-1961)
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Senator Calvin Brice
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Mrs Abbott Lawrence Rotch
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Study for 'Oyster Gatherers of Cancale'
c. 1877
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Moroccan Fortress, with Three Women in the Foreground
c. 1880
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