John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Mrs. Asquith

Details

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Mrs. Asquith
signed 'John S. Sargent' lower right
charcoal on paper
21¼ x 14 5/8in. (54 x 37.3cm.)

Provenance

George B. Warner, Esq.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Mr. Douglas Wardon, Baltimore, Maryland

Literature

W.H. Downes, John Singer Sargent, 1925, p. 288, no. 764
D. McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 114

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Watercolors by Sargent and Barbizon, 1941, no. 30
New York, The Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Exhibition of Helleu and Sargent Drawings, July 1943, no. 59

Lot Essay

Mrs. Asquith was born Margot Tennant and lived from 1864 to 1945. She married Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Mr. Asquith became a British Prime Minister and through him his wife became Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Mrs. Asquith was one of "The Souls," an important literary and aesthetic group in England around the turn of the century.

We are grateful to Elaine Kilmurray for providing the above information.