Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Original Dimensions: 81" x 45 1/2"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1892) "Sargent’s twenty-nine-year-old sitter, the wife of a London banker and a fashionable hostess, is shown poised on an elegant French sofa in a vivacious pose that suggests the influence of progressive painting. This portrait assured potential English patrons of Sargent’s skills and taste when he showed it in London in 1893, quashing misgivings that his scandalous Madame X (16.53) may have aroused when it appeared at the Paris Salon in 1884. The work is among the earliest of Sargent’s striking images of glamorous English women, a series that culminated in The Wyndham Sisters (27.67)." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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