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English Heritage Announces
John Singer Sargent Exhibition
for 2025 at Kenwood
Marking the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits will present
the women who married into British and European aristocracy and the artist who painted them.
Exhibition opens 16 May - 5 October 2025 at Kenwood in Hampstead, London.
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits will gather together,
for the first time, eighteen magnificent portraits of women
once dismissively known as the “Dollar Princesses”. A
war-time nurse, a helicopter pilot and the first sitting
female MP among them, the exhibition will reveal the
often-overshadowed lives of these fascinating American
women who crossed the Atlantic to marry British aristocrats in an exchange of money for titles.
On the centenary of his death, the exhibition will be a
salute to John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the most admired and sought-after portraitist of the Gilded Age on
both sides of the Atlantic. These portraits represent some
of his most glamorous and powerful works. In addition to
full-length oil paintings, masterful charcoal portraits will
also feature, depicting their subjects in a candid and
perceptive light.
Wendy Monkhouse, English Heritage’s Curator of the
exhibition said: “Heiress will explore a side to Sargent’s
portraits not often considered: the women behind the works.
Dismissed historically as the ‘Dollar Princesses’, their stories
were far more complex, and their reach stretched beyond the
boundaries of their marriages. Exploring the reality behind the
label, visitors will also witness Sargent’s mastery of portraiture
at a time when the seeds of the Special Relationship between
England and America were sown.”
Among the treasures included in the exhibition will be
Kenwood’s own magnificent portrait of Daisy Leiter, a
Chicago heiress who married the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, as well as private loans and major international
loans of Edith, Lady Playfair from the Museum of Fine
Art, Boston and Mrs Joseph Chamberlain (pictured) from
the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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