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John Singer Sargent
(1856 - 1925)
Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt)
ca. 1906
Twentieth Century
Oil on canvas
59 in. x 39 in. (149.86 cm x 99.06 cm)
Signed, lower left: John S. Sargent
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, The Blount Collection
1989.0002.0036
This portrait depicts the wife of one of the directors of a prominent London Bank, R. Raphael and Sons. The setting is SargentŐs London studio at 31 Tite Street, which is documented in contemporary photographs. Specific accessories such as the sculpture on the mantelpiece as well as those visible in the mirror are known to have been in SargentŐs studio when the portrait was made in about 1906.
Henriette GoldshmidtŐs family, like her husbandŐs, was involved in banking. Her Frankfurt-born grandfather, Moritz Goldschmidt, began to work for the Rothschild Bank at age fourteen. When Solomon Rothschild founded SM Rothschild in Vienna, Moritz accompanied him and worked for that bank for some seventy years. Henriette married Louis Edward Raphael in 1903. The couple had three children, Edward Louis, Hubert (called Bertie), and Stephen; Bertie inherited his motherŐs portrait when she died in 1926.
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