On 28th August 1854 Ralph Wormeley Curtis was born to Daniel Sargent Curtis [aged 28]. He was a fourth cousin of painter John Singer Sargent.
Around 1880. Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 25]. "Whistler [aged 45] at a Party".
Around 1880. John Singer Sargent [aged 23]. Portrait of the artist's fourth cousin Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 25]. Made at Scheveningen, a seaside resort in the Netherlands that Sargent visited with Curtis and their mutual friend Francis Brooks Chadwick in late summer 1880.
1884. Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 29]. "Drifting with the Tide".
Around 1884. Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 29]. "Return from the Lido".
Around 1884. Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 29]. "Venice San Francesco del Deserto".
On 6th June 1897 Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 42] and Lisa D'Wolfe Colt [aged 26] were married.
On 2nd July 1908 [his father] Daniel Sargent Curtis [aged 82] died.
1918. John Singer Sargent [aged 61]. "Mrs Ralph Curtis [aged 63]" i.e. [his wife] Lisa D'Wolfe Colt [aged 47].
Lisa D'Wolfe Colt: In 1871 she was born. On 6th June 1897 Ralph Wormeley Curtis and she were married. In 1933 she died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Before 1922. Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 67]. "The Bridge of Sighs".
On 4th February 1922 Ralph Wormeley Curtis [aged 67] died.
In 1933 [his former wife] Lisa D'Wolfe Colt [aged 62] died.
Grandfather: Thomas Buckminster Curtis
father: Daniel Sargent Curtis
Great x 3 Grandfather: Epes Sargent
Great x 2 Grandfather: Daniel Sargent
Great x 1 Grandfather: Daniel Sargent
Grandmother: Maria Osborne Sargent