Mrs. Edwin Austin Abbey (Mary Gertrude Mead)
1893 Yale University Art Gallery
About this artwork
A portrait of Mary Gertrude Mead, the wife of Edwin Austin Abbey, executed in oil on canvas. The work features a dedication at the top inscribed by the artist to the sitter.
Did you know?
John Singer Sargent was a close friend of the Abbey family, often visiting their estate at Morgan Hall. The inscription at the top of the canvas, 'Mrs. Abbey from her friend John S. Sargent', serves as a personal token of their intimate social circle in the late 19th-century Anglo-American art scene.
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Mrs. Edwin Austin Abbey (Mary Gertrude Mead)
John Singer Sargent, 1893
