Lot Essay
Henry Brewster (1850-1908) was a musician and playwright, who was drawn by Sargent at Farnborough the day after his death at the request of Dame Ethel Smythe, the composer. Smythe and Brewster had conducted an intense, if unconventional, relationship over twenty five years. They had collaborated in 1906 on 'The Wreckers', for which Brewster had written the libretto.
Sargent later undertook a drawing of the late King Edward VII on his Death-bed on 8 May 1910 which was commissioned for the Royal Collection.
We are very grateful to Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray for their help in cataloguing this lot which will be included in the forthcoming J.S. Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff
Sargent later undertook a drawing of the late King Edward VII on his Death-bed on 8 May 1910 which was commissioned for the Royal Collection.
We are very grateful to Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray for their help in cataloguing this lot which will be included in the forthcoming J.S. Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff