FDA-P.191-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.191-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Jane Evans
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Nearly full-length painted portrait of a woman, seated and wearing a black dress and lace trimmed black cap
Comments
'Vivacity in portraiture has probably never been so completely obtained in modern times....The veracity is startling, and the handling brilliant amongst the most dashing bravura passages ever executed; and yet there is a lack of repose....which alone makes a picture delightful to live with'
[Source: The Magazine of Art, 1899, Volume 23, p.340]
[Source: The Magazine of Art, 1899, Volume 23, p.340]
Description
Content (person)
Evans, Jane Mary, 1826 - 1906, Dame (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1444mm
width (sight size): 930mm
height (frame): 1629mm
width (frame): 1151mm
depth (frame): 80mm
width (sight size): 930mm
height (frame): 1629mm
width (frame): 1151mm
depth (frame): 80mm
Inscription
Signed and dated in black oil paint, lower left: 'John S. Sargent 1898'
I.D. label on frame
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Plain carved oak frame
Production
Person
Sargent, John Singer, 1856 - 1925 (Artist)
Date
1898
History and association
Associated object
FDA-D.1458-2016 (associated object)
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by c.250 Old Boys of Evans’s boarding house and presented to the sitter on 26 July 1898, with the intension that, on the death of the sitter, the portrait would pass to Eton College as a memorial of her
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1899, catalogue number 237; Brussels, 1900, catalogue number 147; International Society, London, 1908, catalogue number 343; 'Works by the late John S. Sargent', Royal Academy, London, Winter 1926, catalogue number 339; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, September to October 1964, catalogue no.28; 'Sargent and Fashion', Boston Museum of Fine Art, 1 November to 6 December 2023; 'Fashioned by Sargent', Tate Britain, London, 22 February to 7 July 2024
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1899, catalogue number 237; Brussels, 1900, catalogue number 147; International Society, London, 1908, catalogue number 343; 'Works by the late John S. Sargent', Royal Academy, London, Winter 1926, catalogue number 339; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, September to October 1964, catalogue no.28; 'Sargent and Fashion', Boston Museum of Fine Art, 1 November to 6 December 2023; 'Fashioned by Sargent', Tate Britain, London, 22 February to 7 July 2024
References
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 13)
• Cole, B. ed., Eton Collections Review 2, December 2007 (pp.69-72)
• Mount, C. M., John Singer Sargent, A Biography, London, 1957 (p.344)
• The Magazine of Art (1899, Volume 23, p.340)
• Cole, B. ed., Eton Collections Review 2, December 2007 (pp.69-72)
• Mount, C. M., John Singer Sargent, A Biography, London, 1957 (p.344)
• The Magazine of Art (1899, Volume 23, p.340)
