John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)
Sir Charles Hedworth Williamson, Bt 1924
Charcoal on paper
20 3/4 x 11in.
32 3/4 x 23 in. framed
Inscribed, lower left and right, “John S. Sargent 1924
Provenance
Mary Hunter, grandmother of the sitter
Her sale, Christie’s London, 3 March 1939, lot 87
Phyllis Williamson, mother of the sitter
Sold Philips, London, 7 June 1994, lot 74, as ‘Portrait of a Young Man’, ill. sale cat. p. .67
Sold Sotheby’s, New York, 29 November 1995, lot 37, ill. sale cat. as ‘Sir William Hedworth Williamson’
Gary Haynes Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Maine, 10 July 2022, lot 3055, as ‘William Hedworth Williamson’
Private Collection
Literature
Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2025), p. 364, cat. no. 676.
