Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)

London, England, The New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Aprl 24–?, 1897, cat. 245, as Mrs. George Swinton. Edinburgh, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, The Ninety–First Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, May 5–Sept. 1, 1917, cat. 142, as Mrs. George Swinton (incorrectly cited as lent by Captain George Swinton instead of Mrs. Henry Edward Ebsworth). Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twentieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Apr. 28–June 30, 1921, cat. 304, as Portrait of Mrs. George Swinton (incorrectly cited as lent by Captain George Swinton instead of Mrs. Henry Edward Ebsworth). Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, The Twenty–Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 27–July 31, 1922, cat. 38, as Portrait of Mrs. Swinton. Art Institute of Chicago, The Thirty–Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 2–Dec. 10, 1922, cat. 202, as Mrs. Swinton. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by John Singer Sargent, Apr. 14–July 1, 1924. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, Nov. 3–Dec. 27, 1925. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent, Jan. 4–Feb. 14, 1926, cat. 29. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Leeds, England, Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall, John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age, Apr. 5–June 10, 1979; London, National Portrait Gallery, July 6–Sept. 9, 1979; Detroit Institute of Arts, Oct. 17–Dec. 9, 1979. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 7, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7–Apr. 19, 1987, cat. 118. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, The Portrait of a Lady: Sargent and Lady Agnew, Aug. 8–Oct. 19, 1997. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 26.

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