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TITLE:
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A Game of Chess
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WORK DATE:
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circa 1907
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CATEGORY:
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Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
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MATERIALS:
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Pencil on paper
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SIZE:
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h: 8.9 x w: 11.1 in / h: 22.6 x w: 28.2 cm
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STYLE:
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Modern
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn and Jane de Glehn were great friends and constant traveling
companions of John Singer Sargent's. Wilfrid, nicknamed "Premp" by Sargent, was the
English-born son of Robert and Sophie von Glehn. He studied art at Jean-Paul Lauren's
studio in Paris and later helped Edwin Austin Abbey with his murals at the studio Abbey
shared with Sargent at Fairford, Gloucestershire. Wilfrid married the American painter
Jane Erin Emmet in 1904. He very much admired Sargent's work and therefore
developed a very similar painting style. He changed his name to de Glehn at the
beginning of World War I. Jane de Glehn was one of the three talented Emmet sisters,
cousin of the artist Ellen Emmet Rand, and a distant relation of the novelist, Henry
James. Jane painted and drew portraits in crayon. She was the model for several of
Sargent's most remarkable informal portraits and figure studies, notably In a Garden,
Corfu; The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati and a stunning watercolor portrait.*
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PROVENANCE:
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the artist
Wilfrid de Glehn
by descent to his niece, Mrs. Tebbitt
by family descent, to the present
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