Octavia Hill (1838 - 1912) (after John Singer Sargent)
after John Singer Sargent, RA (Florence 1856 - London 1925)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1970 - 2010
Materials
Photographic reproduction on canvas/paper
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Blewcoat School, London
NT 1650003
Summary
Reproduction print on canvas/paper (?), Octavia Hill (1838 - 1912) after John Singer Sargent, RA (Florence 1856 - London 1925). A three-quarter-length portrait of Octavia Hill (1838 - 1912), co-founder of the National Trust in 1895, seated, in old age, in black dress with white blouse, with trim to the front and lace ruffs around the wrists to the right, with her hands in her lap, against a dark background. The original painting by Sargent of 1898, commissioned by her freinds for her sixtieth birthday, is in the National Porrtrait Gallery, London (bequeathed by Octavia Hill) and the painted copy of it, 1920/21, by Reginald Eves is in the National Trust offices, London.
Makers and roles
after John Singer Sargent, RA (Florence 1856 - London 1925), artist