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Mrs. Charles Deering, John Singer Sargent. Deering was born July 31, 1852, in South Paris, Maine, the son of Abby Reed Barbour and William Deering. His father was a successful businessman then engaged in real estate speculation and the manufacture and sale of woolens.
Jul 18, 2018 · John Singer Sargent. “An Artist at His Easel,” 1914. Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and Roger McCormick. In the 1910s and 1920s, Deering began to acquire his friend’s work in earnest. Among his holdings were Fountain of Neptune (1902), a plein-air study featuring a truncated view of the fountain in the Piazza della ...
Aug 18, 2015 · John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Portrait of Charles Deering, 1917. Oil on canvas; 28 1/2 x 21 in. (72.4 x 53.3 cm). Private collection, Chicago. I first encountered John Singer Sargent's portrait of Charles Deering in 1999 while visiting the home of a distinguished collector. I had been ushered into the dining room, where my eyes ...
Portrait of Charles Deering. 1917. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925) Although best known for his portraits, John Singer Sargent was also an accomplished plein air (outdoor) painter. In this uncommissioned likeness of his longtime friend Chicagoan Charles Deering at his home in Florida, the artist harmonized portraiture and landscape ...
Sargent and Deering first met in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1876. Painted more than forty years later, this informal portrait is a testimony of their lasting friendship. In 1917, Sargent was in Florida completing a portrait of John D. Rockefeller. While there, he visited Deering at his home at Brickell Point, Miami.
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In 1917, Sargent visited his friends, the brothers Charles and James Deering in Miami, Florida. James’s elaborate Italianate villa, Vizcaya, then under construction, captivated Sargent. He created a series of dazzling watercolors at Vizcaya, using the muscular laborers who were building the garden as models.
Over the next four decades, dozens of paintings by Sargent traveled to the city for exhibition, including at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Friends, Patrons, Champions Prominent Chicagoan Charles Deering (pictured here) was both a lifelong friend and important patron of Sargent.
