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Sargent captures Stevenson’s nervous energy, showing him "walking about and talking." He strides away from his wife, Fanny Stevenson (1840– 1914), who, draped in exotic garb, is the peripheral, and apparently passive, figure in the painting, despite her redoubtable personality.
Dating from 1885, by John Singer Sargent, a celebrated American portrait painter, it shows the Scottish novelist with his wife, Fanny, ten years his senior. She was married with two children when Stevenson met her, but he pursued her across the Atlantic, travelling steerage on the crossing and ending with a gruelling overland trek to California.
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Fanny Stevenson. Frances Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. [1] [2] She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, and Hervey Stewart Osbourne.
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Feb 18, 2024 · The painting, completed in 1885, features the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife Fanny Osbourne in an intimate setting. Sargent, known for his masterful portrait paintings, skillfully conveys the bond between the couple through their gestures and expressions.At first glance, the painting may seem like a traditional ...
1887. Not on view. This is the third of Sargent’s portraits of Stevenson (1850–1894). Like the double portrait nearby, it was painted in Stevenson’s home in Bournemouth, England. Unlike in the previous portrait, Stevenson, who was in frail health at the time, is still and centered within the confines of the vertical canvas.
May 22, 2019 · In the summer of 1885, John Singer Sargent painted a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, in Bournemouth, Dorset ( plate 1 ). 2 Later that year, Stevenson described the work in a letter to American artist Will H. Low:
Nov 13, 2013 · Painted at Bournemouth in the summer of 1885, John Singer Sargent’s portrait, Robert Louis Stevenson and his Wife, which was on loan to the Princeton Art Museum some years ago, has to be one of the strangest images Sargent ever put on canvas.
