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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.
This familial tie links Fanny Stevenson to the broader context of American social and cultural history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With Stevenson Portrait of Fanny Stevenson. Bournemouth, 1885. After Hervey's death, Fanny moved to Grez-sur-Loing, where she met and befriended Robert Louis Stevenson.
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 ...
Although it has since become the favorite painting of the National Portrait Gallery of London’s director Sandy Nairne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny were a bit perplexed when Sargent presented this odd portrait to the couple as a gift.
May 22, 2019 · The much-remarked upon threshold space of Sargent's portrait of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson takes on new meaning in light of James's theories. The disruptive painted doorway, a recurring motif throughout Sargent's interior portraits, draws attention to the composition's discontinuities and disjunctions.
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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.
