Linden Gate. Photo from the NHS collection.
In October 1887 the Newport Journal and Weekly News reported: “Mr. J. S. Sargent of London, who has become somewhat renowned as a portrait and figure painter, is in town and is staying with Mr. H. G. Marquand on Rhode Island Avenue.”
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was born in Florence to a prominent Philadelphia family, with many ties to the American families of the Gilded Age and his Newport subjects included Marquands, Cushings and Boits. At Newport he stayed at “Linden Gate,” the Henry G. Marquand cottage on the corner of Rhode Island Avenue and Old Beach Road. Marquand was a financier, philanthropist and Board President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. “Linden Gate” passed to son-in-law Roderick Terry (a president of the Newport Historical Society) and was destroyed by fire in 1973.