John Singer SargentAmerican, 1856–1925Mrs. Robert Wedgwood
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Mrs. Robert Wedgwood” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Unknown.
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Portriat Painting of 'Mrs. Robert Wedgwood' by John Singer Sargent (b. Florence 1856 - d. London 1925) . Sargent was an American painter and draughtsman, active in England. He was the most fashionable portrait painter working in England and the USA in the late 19th, early 20th century.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
- Accession number
- WE.4011-2014
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
In the life of John Singer Sargent
The whole life1895–1919
The “Triumph of Religion” murals for the Boston Public Library
From 1895 through 1919, for almost thirty years, Sargent works on his largest-scale work, the mural decorations “Triumph of Religion” for the Boston Public Library, showing religion's progress from pagan superstition to the ascension of Christianity; he never completes the final mural of the cycle.
last decade of life
Watercolours of Maine, Florida and the American West
In the last decade of his life Sargent produces many watercolours in Maine, Florida and the American West, of fauna, flora and native peoples.
1918
Commissioned as a war artist
On his return to England in 1918 after a visit to the United States Sargent is commissioned as a war artist by the British Ministry of Information; he depicts scenes from the Great War in his large painting “Gassed” and in many watercolours.
Good Friday 1918
His niece Rose-Marie killed in the shelling of Paris
On Good Friday 1918 his niece Rose-Marie dies in the shelling of the church of St Gervais in Paris; Sargent is deeply affected by her death.
late 1919
The row over the murals “The Church” and “The Synagogue”
The paintings “The Church” and “The Synagogue”, installed in late 1919, portray Christianity as a lovely, radiant young woman and Judaism as a blind, ugly hag, and seem to Boston's Jews to show Judaism defeated; Sargent is both surprised and hurt by the criticism and in the end abandons his plan to finish the murals.
1922
Co-founder of the Grand Central Art Galleries
In 1922 Sargent co-founds New York City's Grand Central Art Galleries together with Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark and others; he actively participates in the galleries and their academy, the Grand Central School of Art, until his death.
