Joshua Montgomery Sears
Date of birth: 25 December 1854
Place of birth: Yarmouth Port, MA
Date of death: 2 June 1905
Place of death: Southborough, MA
Category: collector
Identity:
Joshua Montgomery Sears was the son of Phebe and Joshua Sears.
A wealthy real estate magnate, in 1877 he married the artist, collector and art patron, Sarah Carlile Choate (1858-1935). They were patrons of the arts in Boston. She was painted by J.S. Sargent (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Their son, born in 1879, was also named Joshua Montgomery Sears; their daughter Helen was born ten years later..
Life:
He made several trips to the UK. One was in 1896, when he bought Chelsea Houses y290. He then boughtMarine: Blue and Grey y410 in 1898, both from the Goupil Gallery, London.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
'Sarah Choate Sears', Wikipedia.
Passport applicateion, 1892, Ancestry.com.
