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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit was painted in Paris in the autumn of 1882, one of a number of portraits of members of the American expatriate community that Sargent made in the French capital in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Edward Boit, a watercolor painter from Boston, and his wife, Mary Louisa Cushing Boit (1846–1898), were important patrons and supporters of Sargent. The daring portrait of the Boit’s four daughters, The Children of Edward Darley Boit (1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), painted by Sargent in Paris, was an important landmark in his early career.
Mar 16, 2010 · Madrid 3/16/2010 - 5/30/2010. From march to May, the Prado’s “Invited Work” exhibition programme allows visitors the exceptional opportunity to see John Singer Sargent’s masterpiece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, one of the most outstanding paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), alongside Las Meninas, its direct source of ...
Aug 31, 2021 · July 21, 2021. This is an extraordinary book by first time novelist, Sara Loyster. The book is a multi-layered coming-of-age adventure, an absorbing story about a young girl’s experience with time travel, trips back to the 19th century and the daughters of Edward Darley Boit. There she learns about friendship, art and the lives of girls ...
Spanning a brief period in the lives of John Singer Sargent and the Boit family, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is a coming-of-age tale that explores both the murky world of Paris in 1882 and the upheaval going on in Victoria’s own time, the early sixties, all the while pondering possible answers to the questions raised by Sargent’s most enigmatic work of art.
The four Daughters of Edward Darley Boit are, from left to right: Mary Louisa (1874-1945, about 8 years old at the time), Flourennce (1868-1919, about 14 yrs old), Jane (1870-1955, about 12 yrs old), and Julia (1878-1969, about 4 yrs old). None of the girls ever married, and both Flourennce and Jane, the two rear daughters, became to some ...
