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Johnson’s portraits of children and adolescents were often part of a larger commission to paint whole families. In some instances, the children had died and their parents wished to have a reminder of their loved ones. —PH
Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde Leiter, Countess of Suffolk (1879–1968). Younger daughter of Levi Zeigler Leiter of Washington, co-founder of the Marshall Field department store chain [Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 142] and his wife Mary Theresa Carver [Frick Art Reference Library]. Married Henry Molyneux Paget Howard (m. 1904), the nineteenth Earl of Suffolk and twelfth Earl of Berkshire [Ormond]. The sitter was a relative of the artist [Frick Art Reference Library]. “After she was widowed in 1917, Daisy returned to America, taking up residence in Tucson, Arizona until her death in 1968” [Adelson Galleries].
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