A Game of Bowls
John Singer Sargent, RA (Florence 1856 - London 1925)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1889
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1590 x 2466 mm
Order this imageCollection
Ightham Mote, Kent
NT 826023
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Game of Bowls, by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), 1889. A game of bowls played on the North Lawn of Ightham Mote by its tenants Mary Lincoln Mellen Palmer (1850-94), known as 'Queen', and her daughter Elsie (1873-1955), and their guests, including Violet Sargent (1870-1955), sister of the artist.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by General Jackson and Queen Palmer; by descent to their daughter Elsie, who married Leopold Hamilton Myers; sold by Leopold Hamilton Myers to Knoedler, New York, 1925; sold at auction by Knoedler through Parke Bernet, New York, to benefit the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966; donated by the purchaser to the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967; de-accessioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, sold at auction at Sotheby’s, New York, where acquired by A. Alfred Taubman, 1986; acquired by Sotheby’s as part of the sale of the Taubman collection, 2016; acquired by private treaty by the National Trust with the help of grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund and of numerous private donations, 2018.
Makers and roles
John Singer Sargent, RA (Florence 1856 - London 1925), artist
