John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Title: Lady Hazel Lavery, (c.1887-1935), 2nd Wife of the artist Sir John Lavery
Date: 1923
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
60 x 47 cm
Signed: lower left (in charcoal): John S. Sargent.1923
Credit Line: Presented, Mrs A. Gwynn, 1982
Object Number: NGI.18485
DescriptionSargent was arguably the most internationally fashionable portrait painter of his day. During his final years, instead of his characteristically sumptuos painted society portraits, he offered his clients elegant charcoal likenesses that were not less flattering. He created a great number of these sophisticated portraits often in roughly three hours. Lady Lavery, herself an artist, possibly made a drawing of Sargent in return, hence the inscription 'echange amical'. John Lavery in his autobiography (The Life of a Painter, 1940) recalls his wife's delight with this rich and charming image, stating: 'he has only made me look sixteen'.
ProvenanceLady Lavery; by decent, Mrs. Alice Gwynn; presented, Mrs Alice Gwynn, 1982
Exhibition HistoryRoyal Academy of Arts, London, 1926

John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age, National Portrait Gallery, Leeds, Lotherton Hall; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, 1979

Acquisitions, 1981-1982, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1982

Master European Drawings, from the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre, Colorado; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; The Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minnesota; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983

Hazel, Lady Lavery: Society and Politics, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 18 September - 27 October 1996

John Lavery: Passion and Politics, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 15 July - 31 October 2010
Inscriptionlower left (in charcoal):to Lady Lavery/ échange amical

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