Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)
1893
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 125.4 × 102.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-134512
According to Sargent, twenty-six-year old Elizabeth Chanler had "the face of the Madonna and the eyes of a child." This portrait shows a beautiful, well-bred woman who has learned to be strong. When Elizabeth was still a girl, her mother died, leaving her to help care for seven younger brothers and sisters. Sargent painted her while she was in London for a brother's wedding, and the artist compos…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman
Registry history
- 1893 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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