Henry G. Marquand
Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Original Dimensions: 52" x 41 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1897) "In 1896 The Met recognized the contributions of trustee Henry G. Marquand (1819–1902) with this commissioned portrait. The sitter had made his fortune in real estate, banking, and railroads. After 1880 he devoted himself to collecting art and to the Museum, donating a significant group of European paintings in 1889, the year he became its second president. Sargent executed the portrait in his London studio, capturing the probing gaze of the formidable seventy-eight-year-old, who was in poor health. The artist exhibited three similarly commanding portraits of American and European sitters at the Paris fair." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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