Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney General Sargent decided a mooted point. The question was, how does a Rear Admiral rank in relation to a Major General in order of precedence? Heretofore, Major Generals have ranked equally with Rear Admirals, and outranked Rear Admirals of the lower half of the list. Naval officers objected...
...Sargent ruled that all Rear Admirals rank with Major Generals. When any Rear Admiral and any Major General get together, precedence is determined by seniority alone...
...sale of pictures by the late John Singer Sargent at Christie's Galleries, London (TIME, Aug. 3), continued...
...cries of admiration. Lord Beatty stood up near the pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several hundred...
...company settled down to serious bidding. A representative of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace; $4,300 for Man Seated by a Stream, "undoubtedly the most expensive man," said the London Evening...