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Ethel Sands (6 July 1873 – 19 March 1962) was an American-born artist and hostess who lived in England from her early childhood. She studied art in Paris for several years under Eugène Carrière, and it was there that she met Anna Hope Hudson (Nan), her life partner. Her works were influenced by the artist Edouard Vuillard and Walter Sickert, and were generally of still lifes and interior scenes, many of which are of Château d'Auppegard that she shared with Hudson in France. Sands was a Fitzroy Street Group and London Group member. Her works are in the collections of museums, the National Portrait Gallery, London and public collections. During both world wars, she nursed soldiers; she established a hospital in France in World War I. In 1916 she was made a citizen of England. Due to her family's wealth she collected art and was a patron, but she is best known as a hostess for the cultural elite in her homes in England and Hudson's house in France. Her friends included Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Augustus John and many other writers and artists of her day. She continued to entertain into the 1950s when she was in her late 70s and 80s. ==Early life== Ethel Sands was born on 6 July 1873 in Newport, Rhode Island, the first child of Mary Morton Hartpence and Mahlon Sands,〔 who married in 1872.〔 Mahlon Sands was secretary of the American Free Trade League, who in 1870 advocated for civil service reform and free trade.〔Andrew L. Slap, (''The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era.'' ) New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, 128, 156. Accessed via Questia, an online subscription service.〕 He was partner of his deceased father's pharmaceutical importing firm, A.B. Sands and Company.〔 Ethel had two younger brothers, Mahlong Alan and Morton Harcourt Sands, who were respectively 5 and 11 years younger than Ethel.〔 In 1874 the family left the United States for England,〔 intending to only visit the country.〔Josiah Granville Leach. ''(Memoranda relating to the ancestry and family of Hon. Levi Parson Morton, vice-president of the United States (1889–1893). )''. Printed at the Riverside press; 1894. p. 65.〕 However, Mahlon Sands and his family stayed in England and travelled among European countries. They also visited the United States annually〔("Mahlon Sand's Death: A Fatal Accident in London, While Starting for a Ride." ) ''New York Times''. 9 May 1888. Retrieved 12 March 2014.〕 and were there for an extended visit from 1877 to 1879.〔 They kept their house in Newport, Rhode Island throughout this time.〔 The wealthy Sands circulated amongst London society, including writer and statesman John Morley, politician William Ewart Gladstone, writer Henry James, artist John Singer Sargent, the Rothschild family, and Henry Graham White. Mahlon's sister, Katherine, was married to journalist and newspaper editor Edwin Lawrence Godkin. They were part of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales', social circle. John Singer Sargent painted the portrait of her mother's portrait, who was considered "a famous society beauty of her day."〔〔 Mary Sands was "much admired" by writer Henry James,〔 who called her "that gracious lady" and based his heroic character "Madame de Mauves" on her.〔 Ethel Sands was raised in a respectable upper-class household in which her parents were "happily married".〔 While her father was considered handsome〔 and her mother beautiful, Anthony Powell states that some people wrote in their diaries and letters that she was plain. In her later years, Powell met her and said that "so great was her elegance, charm, capacity to be amusing in a no-nonsense manner, that I could well believed her to be good-looking in her youth.〔Anthony Powell. ''(Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946–1990 )''. University of Chicago Press; 1 July 1994. ISBN 978-0-226-67712-5. p. 134–135.〕 Her father had ridden horseback through Hyde Park, was thrown from the horse and died an accidental death in 1888.〔Robert L. Gale, (''A Henry James Encyclopedia.'' ) New York: Greenwood Press, 1989, 586–587. The source was accessed via Questia, a subscription required site.〕 His widow, Mary Sands, raised Ethel and her brothers until her death on 28 July 1896.〔(Ethel Sands. ) Tate. Retrieved 17 January 2014.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethel Sands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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