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JOHN SINGER SARGENT | PORTRAIT OF MRS. EDWIN S. WEBSTER

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March 5, 08:10 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

JOHN SINGER SARGENT

1856 - 1925

PORTRAIT OF MRS. EDWIN S. WEBSTER

signed John S. Sargent (lower left) and date 1920 (lower right)

charcoal on paperboard

image: 23 by 14 inches (58.4 by 35.6 cm)

sheet: 25 by 18 ½ inches (63.5 by 47 cm)

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Boston, Massachusetts

Descended in the family (sold: Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, Maryland, November 16, 2003, lot 845)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

David McKibben, Sargent's Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 129

Jane de Peyster Hovey, the sitter, married Edwin Sibley Webster of Boston in 1893. He was the founder of Stone and Webster, an engineering and manufacturing company, and served as a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1926 to 1950.