Year 1899 (1899) Created 1899 | Artist John Singer Sargent | |
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Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States Similar The Hermit (Il solitario), Mrs Hugh Hammersley, General Officers of World War I, The Misses Vickers, Mr and Mrs I N Phelps St |
The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant is an 1899 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wyndham Sisters was hailed by the critics and dubbed “The Three Graces” by the Prince of Wales.
Painting
The three daughters of the Honorable Percy Wyndham, a wealthy Londoner, appear in this monumental canvas. From the left, they are Madeline Adeane (1869–1941), Pamela Tennant (1871–1928), and Mary Constance, Lady Elcho (1862–1937).
Sargent painted them in the drawing room of their family’s residence on Belgrave Square. Seen on the wall above them is George Frederic Watts’s portrait of their mother, establishing their genealogy and reminding viewers of Sargent’s ties to older artists.