Portrait of Mrs Robert Harrison  1886

Bequeathed by Miss P.J.M. Harrison 2000 [br] Sargent moved from Paris to London in the summer of 1885. Finding it difficult to attract patrons, he turned to his friends and family for portrait commissions. He may have been introduced to the cousins Robert and Peter Harrison by Alma Strettell. The future wife of Peter Harrison, Strettel was a close friend of Sargent and, i...