London CNN —In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear.
Despite curating a selection of her best frocks, Eleanor Iselin was captured in her casual day dress at the insistence of Sargent.
Working during the rise of haute couture, both Sargent and his subjects were living through a new dawn of fashion.
Rachel was styled in a scrap of pink fabric which Sargent manipulated on canvas to become a dress.
“Their work was ready-to-wear, using off the (rack) elements of portraiture, whereas with Sargent it always was bespoke.
Persons:
Eleanora Iselin, John Singer Sargent, Eager, Iselin, “ Sargent, Eleanor Iselin, Sargent, It’s, James Finch, ”, —, Finch, Margaret Oliphant, Edith Wharton, Gretchen, Rachel Warren, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Rachel, Tate Britain “ He’s, ” Finch, “ He’s, ” Sargent, Sybil Sassoon, couturier Charles Fredrick Worth, Worth, Sassoon, ’ Reframing, Lily, Lily Rose ”, Sybil Sassoon’s, “, they’ve, Ellen Terry, Lady Macbeth, Jai Monaghan, Tate Britain ‘, Sargent’s
Organizations:
London CNN —, Fashion, Tate, of Art, Tate Britain, CNN, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Locations:
New York, Tate Britain, of Art , Washington, London, Scottish, Boston, Worth, Paris