The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1903, Page 45

b L - 1) Pages 45 0 48] @ all |Pages 4510 48 = SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1903. AMERICAN ARTIST MAKES $100,000 A YEAR FROM SALE OF HIS —t s | 1 | ” Sargent Finds His Popularity a Burden. 15.—Chelsea, the London just is unigue. Three in- e true of him. He 1s his income from his gs is $100,000; he has strong man should ot one little bit to He closed his rambling r day and ran away in s admirers. The last went he couldn’'t even his letters. He § ed that he simply y ong else asked him departed for Spain f the London season ere until the last of not even paint an- a few months. The ome member of his gent every year and y the maddest of the ys his bills to the if you say palnt- He is the most er refers either to Sargent is unmar- bachelorhood is & y high-born Eng- rgent does not Indeed, when r of regret legies. ¥ e ms & woman b ladies visit his & n the rare occa- sions when he entertains, they are chermed by the simple cordiality of his X + With Edward Abbey, the Great Painter Is Keeping Alive Traditions of Old Chelsea. welcome. But the artist never seeks the soclety of women. However, he doesn’t seck the soclety of any. His neighbor, Abbey, is his great friend; Frank Millet and Alfred Parsons are others. Helleu, the French etcher, is an intimate of Sar- gent and so is Manchini, the Italian whose curious work with blocks of paint Sargent much admires. Sargent has three fads. He is passion- ately fond of music and plays the plano well. He bicycles and keeps himself fit by daily rides about the environs of Lon- don. He collects pictures and his studio is filled with the work of his contempo- raries. His generosity to young artists is proverblal. He is a visitor in one of the art schools and takes keen pleasure in methods of teaching art. No living artist makes such a fabulous ircome from his cctual work-in-hand as Sargent. His fee is $5000 & figure, and last year he exhibited seventeen pictures, several of which iIncluded three figures. The seventeen excluded a number of paintings which for reasons best known to himself Mr. Sargent sent direct to their purchasers. Mr. Sargent invests his money immediately and spends compara- tively little on himself. He lives at the studios and has one man servant, Edwin Austin Abbey, “who does painted {llustrations,” is painting his vast official picture of the coronation partly in Chel- sea and partly at his country place, Mor- gan Hall, where all sorts of armor and other historic settings help him in the staging of the ponderous picture. For this, too, the King has already given Mr. Abbey several sittings, and the Queen wiil give at least one before the work is con- cluded six months hence. Nearly all the great Dukes and Duchesses have sat. It is & fact not generally known that Mr, Abbey’s picture of the coronation is not primarily for English consumption, if one Fowan o, APLEY PORTRAITS AND IS SO IN DEMAND THAT HE HAS TO HIDE AWAY = S SN N — IS e i ZUAEX . e AR L /ifoa:é'ffl.._ T TS [TOIO s may use the expression, but for traveling purposes in the United States. It is being pafnted at the expense of Messrs. Agnew, the picture dealers, and will be exhibited by them In America immediately on com- pletion. In addition to this picture, Mr. Abbey is at present working on one of a geries of paintings by various artists {llustrative of the history of the city of London. These illustrations will hang in the.Royal Exchange. Mr. Abbey has also just finished an altar plece for the American church in Paris. Abbey is a strong contrast to Sargent. He is seen much more In society than is Sargent and is given credit for being rather fond of titles. While of a reticent turn, he none the less seems to enjoy golng about and willingly ~makes use of the soclal opportunities so freely given the successful artist. Phil May was a whose studios in Chelsea are only fifty Broadway in the vicinity of Mary Ander- the best thing the average Englishman great friend of Abbey and so is Dana yards apart, are more Intimate. Abbey son de Navarro, and Abbey Is sald to has fo say of Abbey is that he is an Gibson, although Abbey and Sargent, and Frank Millet used to live down at be one of “our Mary's” devotees. But ardent cricketer. IIENT S, S QIO y Gz S ———————----m M SOME WELL KNOWN CORNERS IN THE ARTIST SUBURB OF LONDON WHERE CARLYLE ONCE LIVED, AND ONE OF THE MEN WHO IS KEEPING ALIVE FOR THE GENERATION TO COME THE ARTISTIC TRADITIONS OF THE PLACE. - . asals