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Mrs. Hugh Hammersley

1892
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 771
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).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
  • Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)
  • Date: 1892
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 81 x 45 1/2in. (205.7 x 115.6cm)
    Framed: 91 1/2 x 52 5/8 x 4 3/4 in. (232.4 x 133.7 x 12.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Campbell, in memory of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1998
  • Object Number: 1998.365
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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