Two Paintings by John Singer Sargent
The photo on the left shows a double portrait by John Singer Sargent of Mr. John White Field and his wife. This painting was done in the early 1880's and is in the collection of Pennyslvania Academy of Fine Arts. The image on the right shows an earlier portrait of Mr. Field by Sargent. Notice Mr. Field is blind in his left eye, which is enlarged and his right eye is focused which is a good eye. It is my opinion that Mr. Field rejected the first portrait of himself done by Sargent. And of course the second portrait of Mr. Field and his wife was accepted. The Sargent portrait on the right was rejected the second time by the Catalog Raisonne system in 2004. Please review the research on our listing.
