Mrs. Archibald Williamson

"Mrs. Archibald Williamson (d. 1911), née Caroline Maria Hayne, was the daughter of James Charles Hayne. In 1887, she married Archibald Williamson. He was a partner in the [Liverpool] merchant house of Balfour, Williamson & Co., and chairman of Lobitos Oilfields, Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields, Central Argentina Railway, and Santa Rosa Milling Company. He was MP for [the Scottish counties of] Elginshire and Nairnshire (1906-18), and for Moray and Nairn from 1918 to 1922. He served as Financial and Parliamentary Secretary at the War Office from 1919 to 1921, and was created baronet in 1909 and Baron Forres in 1922...The Forres family owned 31 Tite Street [Sargent's former studio in Chelsea, London] for a time in the 1970s, and the portrait hung there in the studio. When the portrait was exhibited at the Thirty-sixth Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 1906, the Art Journal described it as handled 'with characteristic brio' (Art Journal, 1906, p. 349)." (R. Ormond, E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, vol. III, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, p. 167)