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// Further to my point, there are some stunning portrait drawings on here by Sargent, very few people would know who they are, //
now that is very odd/funny/peculiar
An art historian writes:
I was slumming down an auction house in the south west - and they were dawdling about clearing my payment. So I sat next to a buyer and said 'show and tell'. All buyers want to talk about their little coups. And he showed me a drawing by JSS ( for it was he) and the signature 'Althorp' 1914.
I said oh, Princess Di's grandfather I think
and Mr Kim confirmed indeed it was. JSS dashed off these drawings ( of the highest standard see above) and called the sitters 'mugs' for paying so much and apparently he called the drawings - mugshots
The officers on the way back from trenches wd sit instead of a photo carte de visite. I think he said something about litho reproduction as well.
Althrop - his version - had NOT been recorded and if he - the buyer Mr Kim- cd establish provenance the museums were showing excitement.
and just in case this account is too - - rich and embellished for the average Aber, Here is another comment on JSS's many many drawings
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) made hundreds of rapidly drawn charcoal sketches of society personalities, drawings he referred to as "mugs." He made these in response to a high demand for his work. Not being able to satisfy all with oil paintings, he satiated his sitters with quick charcoal drawings.
now that is very odd/funny/peculiar
An art historian writes:
I was slumming down an auction house in the south west - and they were dawdling about clearing my payment. So I sat next to a buyer and said 'show and tell'. All buyers want to talk about their little coups. And he showed me a drawing by JSS ( for it was he) and the signature 'Althorp' 1914.
I said oh, Princess Di's grandfather I think
and Mr Kim confirmed indeed it was. JSS dashed off these drawings ( of the highest standard see above) and called the sitters 'mugs' for paying so much and apparently he called the drawings - mugshots
The officers on the way back from trenches wd sit instead of a photo carte de visite. I think he said something about litho reproduction as well.
Althrop - his version - had NOT been recorded and if he - the buyer Mr Kim- cd establish provenance the museums were showing excitement.
and just in case this account is too - - rich and embellished for the average Aber, Here is another comment on JSS's many many drawings
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) made hundreds of rapidly drawn charcoal sketches of society personalities, drawings he referred to as "mugs." He made these in response to a high demand for his work. Not being able to satisfy all with oil paintings, he satiated his sitters with quick charcoal drawings.
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