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Asher Wertheimer
Presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922
adults
animals: mammals
art dealer
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painting oil paint canvas
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
19 June 2006 – 4 December 2006
2006-12-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-06-19
The Swagger Portrait
Collection based display
5 April 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
5 April 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
2011-04-05
Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain)
19 July 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
2011-07-19
CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www3.lacaixa.es
2011-04-05
Portraits of the Belle Epoque
Loan-out
5 February 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
5 February 2015 – 25 May 2015
2015-05-25
2015-02-05
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
29 June 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
2015-06-29
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2015-02-05
John Singer Sargent: Artists, Writers, Actors and Musicians
Loan-out
23 November 2018 – 24 March 2019
2019-03-24
23 November 2018 – 24 March 2019
2019-03-24
2018-11-23
Wallraf Richartz Museum (Cologne, Germany)
2018-11-23
Once Upon a Time in America
Loan-out
15 November 2021 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
15 November 2021 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
2021-11-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2021-11-15
Sargent's Wertheimer Portraits
Collection based display
8 May 2023 – 5 May 2025
2025-05-05
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-05-08
Gallery 6
Collection based display
Asher Wertheimer
support: 1473 × 978 mm
frame: 1790 × 1280 × 147 mm
Presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922
<p><b>N03705</b> ASHER WERTHEIMER 1898</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ t.l. and ‘1898’ t.r.
<br/>Canvas, 58×38 1/2 (147·5×98).
<br/>Presented to the National Gallery by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922; transferred 1926.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> This and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-mrs-wertheimer-n03706" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03706</span></a>–<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-almina-daughter-of-asher-wertheimer-n03713" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03713</span></a> were commissioned from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1898 (603); <i>Loan Exhibition of Portraits</i>, National Academy of Design, New York, December 1898 (220); Copley Hall, Boston, February–March 1899 (19); <i>Exposition Universelle</i>, Paris, 1900 (section américaine, 5).
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Robert Ross, ‘The Wertheimer Sargents’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1911, pp.7–8, repr. p.2; Downes, 1925, pp.43–6, 182, repr. facing p.168; Charteris, 1927, pp.140, 164–5, 177, 267; Mount, 1955, pp.223–5, 398–9, 435, repr. p.144; McKibbin, 1956, p.130; Mount, 1957, pp.186–7, 191, 330–1, 344.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Pousette-Dart, 1924, n.p.; Manson and Meynell, 1927, n.p.</p>
<p>This is the first of the series of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> of the Wertheimer family, and was commissioned to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of Asher Wertheimer and his wife. Sargent painted a companion three-quarter-length picture of Mrs Wertheimer in a white dress, also exhibited at the Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a>, 1898 (936), but this was not considered entirely satisfactory and the artist painted another portrait of her in 1904 (<span>N03706</span>).</p>
<p>Asher Wertheimer (1844–1918), London-born picture and fine art dealer of 158 New Bond Street, is here shown with his black poodle ‘Noble’. McKibbin records that two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> exist for this in a notebook belonging to the Fogg Art Museum (1937.7.11, Nos.9, 10). Mount (1957, p.187) records that the artist first met Wertheimer either in 1896 or early in 1897, and suggests that Wertheimer was indirectly responsible for obtaining the artist further portrait commissions, those of the rest of the Wertheimer family being perhaps done in part return for this additional work.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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adults animals: mammals art dealer arts and entertainment cigar clothing and personal items dog, poodle individuals: male leisure and pastimes man named individuals objects people portraits recreational activities smoking Wertheimer, Asher work and occupations