John Singer Sargent

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)

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1952.3.1

Other works by John Singer Sargent

Stringing Onions
1878

Lady Helen Vincent
1904

George Frederick McCorquodale
1902

Alhambra, Patio de los Leones (Court of the Lions)
1879

The Onion Seller
c. 1880-82