Edwin Booth (1833-1893), (painting).

Edwin Booth (1833-1893), (painting).

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.

Edwin Booth (1833-1893), (painting).

Digital Reference:

87 1/2 x 61 3/4 in. (222.3 x 156.8 cm).

(Upper left:) John S. Sargent signed

Full-length portrait of Edwin Booth standing in front of the fireplace in the grand hallway of The Players clubhouse. He stands with his legs apart and his thumbs resting in the front pockets of his pants.

Portrait male -- Booth, Edwin -- Full length

Performing Arts -- Theater -- Performer

Architecture interior -- Commercial -- Players Club

Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard, P. O. Box 2365, Fort Worth, Texas 76113 Accession Number: 2013.7

Formerly in the collection of Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, New York, New York until 2002.

Anonymous Collection, 2002-2013.

This portrait was commissioned by members of the The Players, a New York City club for actors founded by Edwin Booth and his friends in 1888.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 232.

"Life in America: a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's Fair, April 24 to October 29, [1939]," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1939.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, press release, Sept. 6, 2013.

"Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art," Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, pg. 38.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 18.

"Life in America: a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's Fair, April 24 to October 29, [1939]," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1939, pl. 261.

"Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art," Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, pg. 38.

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