Miss Beatrice Townsend  1882

Eleanor Beatrice Townsend (1870–1884) was the sixth of seven children born to John Joseph Townsend, a New York attorney and politician, and his wife, Catherine Rebecca Bronson Townsend, a friend of John Singer Sargent’s and the subject of her own portrait by the artist. [br] Portraits of children are among Sargent’s earliest works and remain some of his most captivating p...