FDA-P.191-2010

Object number

FDA-P.191-2010

Object type

painting

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]

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

Inscription

Signed and dated: 'John S. Sargent 1898'

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Plain carved oak frame

Person

Sargent, John Singer, 1856 - 1925 (Artist)

Date

1898

Associated object

FDA-D.1458-2016 (associated object)

Object history note

Provenance: Presented in 1906 by the Old Boys of Evans's house, Eton College

Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1899, catalogue no.237; 'Works by the late John S. Sargent', Royal Academy, London, Winter 1926, catalogue no.339; 'Works by John Singe Sargent, R.A.', City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, September to October 1964, catalogue no.28

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)