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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Washington, D.C.
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Washington, D.C.

correspondent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Date28 October 1917
Place MadeWashington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions17.2 x 27.2 cm (6 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.003957
eMuseum ID726648
EmbARK ObjectID24705
Other NumberU27w188
TMS Source ID9039
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryWriting to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Washington, DC, where he was painting President Woodrow Wilson’s portrait, John Singer Sargent observes that it “takes a man a long time to look like his portrait, as Whistler used to say—but he (Wilson) is doing his best, and has been very obliging about finding time for his sittings.” With characteristic wit, he goes on to confide that the company of good friends in the capital has restrained him from the “cursing of God and man than I otherwise might have.”