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Detail of Helen Sears by John Singer Sargent in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010
Helen Sears
1895
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925
Dimensions: 167.3 x 91.4 cm (65 7/8 x 36 in.)
Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession Number: 55.1116
Helen Sears was one of two portraits Sargent completed in 1895 when he traveled to Boston to install his first murals at the Boston Public Library. Six-year-old Helen was the daughter of Sarah Choate Sears, a friend and an accomplished photographer, painter, and art patron. Sargent's high viewpoint and tilted perspective serve to silhouette Helen against the dark red carpet, and the creamy tones of her dress and bright illumination of her face lend her an air of childhood innocence, ...belied in part by her wistful mood as she stares solemnly into the distance. Helen had posed for another portrait by Abbott H. Thayer three years earlier and was a frequent subject of her mother's photographs. Sears sent Sargent her photograph of Helen in the same dress and shoes, prompting him to respond that it, "makes me feel like returning to Boston and putting my umbrella through my portrait. But how can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
This text was adapted from an entry by Janet Comey in Erica Hirshler, "Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting," exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/helen-sears-33550
1895
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925
Dimensions: 167.3 x 91.4 cm (65 7/8 x 36 in.)
Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession Number: 55.1116
Helen Sears was one of two portraits Sargent completed in 1895 when he traveled to Boston to install his first murals at the Boston Public Library. Six-year-old Helen was the daughter of Sarah Choate Sears, a friend and an accomplished photographer, painter, and art patron. Sargent's high viewpoint and tilted perspective serve to silhouette Helen against the dark red carpet, and the creamy tones of her dress and bright illumination of her face lend her an air of childhood innocence, ...belied in part by her wistful mood as she stares solemnly into the distance. Helen had posed for another portrait by Abbott H. Thayer three years earlier and was a frequent subject of her mother's photographs. Sears sent Sargent her photograph of Helen in the same dress and shoes, prompting him to respond that it, "makes me feel like returning to Boston and putting my umbrella through my portrait. But how can an unfortunate painter hope to rival a photograph by a mother? Absolute truth combined with absolute feeling."
This text was adapted from an entry by Janet Comey in Erica Hirshler, "Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting," exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/helen-sears-33550
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