The Wilfrid de Glehn estate is represented by
David Messum Fine Art Ltd.
London
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Jane on the staircase, Cheyne Walk, c. 1905
The news of Wilfrid and Jane’s engagement had at first filled Sargent with misgivings, principally because he feared losing a dear friend to a new life in the United States where he would rarely get to see him. Jane was no less nervous about meeting one of her husband’s closest and most eminent friends. But the gift from Sargent of a Lowestoft tea service by way of a wedding present smoothed the way, and the two soon became firm friends.
On the de Glehns’s return to London, they set up home at 73 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, just around the corner from Sargent’s Tite Street studio. Jane made the couple’s new home a comfortable rendez-vous for the many artists, musicians, writers and playwrights who were resident in the area, including Philip Wilson Steer, Henry Tonks, Percy Grainger and Roger Quilter, as well as Sargent, and very soon the house hummed with music and conversation. She was a great hostess, but one senses from her weekly letters home that in London she was always a little pre-occupied by domestic concerns. It was while she was away in Europe or America with Wilfrid and Sargent that she was able to paint freely and to refuel her imagination.
The Yellow Dress (Jane de Glehn at Cheyne Walk), 1905
