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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 19, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 91 | $****** - ****** | Mrs. Hugh Smith |
paintings
104.2 x 81.2 cm (41.02 x 31.97 in)
oil on canvas
signed John S. Sargent, u.l., and dated 1904, u.r.
Colin Hugh Smith (the sitter's husband), 1904
Mrs. Hugh Smith (the sitter), 1910
Vivian Hugh Smith (later the First Baron Bichester), 1918
Second Baron Bicester (her son), 1956
Mrs. J.E.H. Collins (his daughter), 1968
J.E.H. Collins (her husband), 1981
By descent in the family to the present owner
Frank Rinder, "The New Gallery," Art Journal, 1904, p. 193; "Fine Arts: The New Gallery," Athenaeum, no. 3991, April 23, 1904, p. 537; "The New Gallery," Graphic, April 30, 1904, p. 600; "Art: The New Gallery," Spectator, April 23, 1904, p. 641; William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, p. 214; Evan Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 271; Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, no. 0410, 1955 ed., p. 438; 1957 ed., p. 347; 1969 ed., p. 452; David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: With an Essay and Biographical Summary and a Complete Checklist of Sargent's Portraits, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 123; Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, vol. III, pp. 127-28, no. 471, p. 128, illustrated in color
