John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Description

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Margaretta Drexel, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham
signed John S. Sargent, l.r.
charcoal on paper
24 1/2 by 19 in.
(62.2 by 48.3 cm)

Provenance

By descent to Lady Diana Tiarks
Anita Tiarks Millott (her daughter)

Catalogue Note

Margaretta Drexel was the granddaughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893), the Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, partner of J.P. Morgan, and founder of Drexel University. His niece, Saint Katherine Drexel, was sainted in 2000, only the second American in history. In 1910, Margaretta married Guy Finch Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. Her brother-in-law was Denys Finch Hatton, the African big game hunter and adventurer featured in Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blizen's pseudonym) Out of Africa.