Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)

1. Commissioned by Mrs. Henry Edward Ebsworth (the sitter's mother), 1897 (1) Llandough Castle, Cowbridge, Glamorgan, South Wales: (2) Gattonside House, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland; (3) London, England; consigned by her to M. Knoedler & Co., London, England, and New York, 1915; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, England, The New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Aprl 24–?, 1897, cat. 245, as Mrs. George Swinton.
• Edinburgh, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, The Ninety–First Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, May 5–Sept. 1, 1917, cat. 142, as Mrs. George Swinton (incorrectly cited as lent by Captain George Swinton instead of Mrs. Henry Edward Ebsworth).
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twentieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Apr. 28–June 30, 1921, cat. 304, as Portrait of Mrs. George Swinton (incorrectly cited as lent by Captain George Swinton instead of Mrs. Henry Edward Ebsworth).
• Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, The Twenty–Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 27–July 31, 1922, cat. 38, as Portrait of Mrs. Swinton.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Thirty–Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 2–Dec. 10, 1922, cat. 202, as Mrs. Swinton.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by John Singer Sargent, Apr. 14–July 1, 1924.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, Nov. 3–Dec. 27, 1925.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent, Jan. 4–Feb. 14, 1926, cat. 29.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Leeds, England, Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall, John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age, Apr. 5–June 10, 1979; London, National Portrait Gallery, July 6–Sept. 9, 1979; Detroit Institute of Arts, Oct. 17–Dec. 9, 1979.
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 7, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7–Apr. 19, 1987, cat. 118.
• Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, The Portrait of a Lady: Sargent and Lady Agnew, Aug. 8–Oct. 19, 1997.

• “The New Gallery,” The Times (London), Saturday, Apr. 24, 1897: 10.
• “Art Notices,” The Illustrated London News 110, 3028 (May 1, 1897): 587.
• “The New Gallery Summer Exhibition,” The Academy 51 (May 1, 1897): 479.
• “The New Gallery,” The Saturday Review 83, 2168 (May 15, 1897): 537–538.
• “The New Gallery,” The Atheneum no. 3630 (May 22, 1897): 686–687.
• Henri Frantz, “Les salons Anglais: Royal Academy et New Gallery,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 19 (1897): 253–260.
• John LaFarge, “Sargent, the Artists,” The Independent 51, 2630 (Thursday, Apr. 27, 1899): 1140–1142.
• Marion Hepworth Dixon, “Mr. John S. Sergeant as a Portrait–Painter,” The Magazine of Art (1899): 112–119.
• A. L. Baldry, “The Art of J. S. Sergeant, R.A., Part I,” The Studio 19, 83 (Feb. 1900): 3–21.
• –––––. “The Art of J. S. Sergeant, R.A., Part II,” The Studio 19, 83, (Feb. 1900): 3–21.
• Charles H. Caffin, “John S. Sargent: The Greatest Contemporary Portrait Painter,” The World’s Work, 7, 1 (Nov. 1903): 4099–4118.
• Arts and Decoration 17 (June 1922): 118.

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Art Institute of Chicago

Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)

Art Institute of Chicago

Venetian Glass Workers

Art Institute of Chicago

Thistles

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

An Artist at His Easel

Art Institute of Chicago

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