JOHN SINGER SARGENT sitter Thoron COOPER HEWITT patron D'Hauteville Kean photos
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT sitter Thoron COOPER HEWITT patron D'Hauteville Kean photos. Significant sitters, outdoor portraits. 1888 places this photo as the year before Mary Louise Thoron married. William Crowninshield Endicott. Louise Thoron Endicott was sitter for John Singer Sargent in 1903. 2 Oversized cabinet card portraits of prominent womenCirca 1888 Gilt edge Size: 8" x 10" Identification on verso: Iron ink inscription of two wealthy women, (Mary) Louise Thoron later Endicott, aka Lulu and Elizabeth D'Hauteville Kean Significant sitters, outdoor portraits. 1888 places this photo as the year before Mary Louise Thoron married William Crowninshield Endicott. Louise Thoron Endicott was sitter for John Singer Sargent in 1903. His beautiful portrait of her sold for over 2 million dollars. Close associations through familial and business ties to the Roosevelt, Chamberlain, Peabody and Carnegie families along with donations to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Elizabeth D'Hauteville Kean, devoted collector, philanthropist, socialite. Tied to a wealthy political family, she was an avid collector of books. Her correspondence with Roosevelt is documented. She was a major donor to the Cooper Hewitt and was friendly with the Hewitt sisters. Neither women had children. The association between the two women is still to be discovered, as is the location of the photos. Photo of John Singer Sargent's painting of the sitter included for reference only.
