Lot Essay
The sitter's husband, Gavin Simonds, later Viscount Simonds, became Lord Chancellor in the Churchill government.
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Portrait of Mary Hope Mellor, Viscountess Simonds
Details
John Singer Sargent, R.A. (1856-1925)
Portrait of Mary Hope Mellor, Viscountess Simonds
signed and dated 'John S Sargent 1911' (lower right)
charcoal
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.2 cm.)
Portrait of Mary Hope Mellor, Viscountess Simonds
signed and dated 'John S Sargent 1911' (lower right)
charcoal
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.2 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter, thence by descent.
Literature
D. McKibbon, Sargent's Boston, with a complete check list of Sargent's portraits, Boston, 1956, p.109.