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Family[edit] On the death of his father, Sir Edward Elias Sassoon, in 1924, Sir Victor Sassoon became the 3rd Baronet of Bombay. Late in life, in 1959, he married his American nurse, Evelyn Barnes ("Barnsie"). He had no issue and the baronetcy became extinct. He was related by marriage to the Mocatta family and he himself was a Sephardic Jew.
Joseph Sassoon paints a familiar portrait of Victor, the shrewd businessman and bachelor-about-town who, despite his meticulously kept diaries remains a mystery, adding depth with background on Victor’s work in India. Joseph Sassoon is an historian, and historians deal in facts – so it’s surprising to encounter factual errors in the ...
30 de jun. de 2023 · John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the socialite Sybil, Countess of Rocksavage (née Sassoon) and Aline de Rothschild, Lady Sassoon (pictured above), bestow on his patrons the artist’s ...
21 de mar. de 2024 · Rose Hanbury, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, attends a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London, England, on March 29, 2022.
1 de mar. de 2024 · For the portrait of close friend Sybil Sassoon in 1922, he enlisted the help of English couturier Charles Fredrick Worth (whose label, House of Worth, was the first haute couture atelier ...
28 de ene. de 2020 · At Sassoon's 1935 circus party, a would-be Don Quixote smuggled a donkey into the Cathay goods lift and enticed it into the ballroom. “Get it out of here,” demanded an unamused Sir Victor – dressed as a ringmaster with top hat, scarlet coat and riding whip – at which point the beast promptly lifted its tail and shat on the dance floor.
An accomplished photographer, he made many images of friends and landscapes and created fifteen photograph albums now in the Sassoon collection. He also illustrated his many diaries (1927-1961) with his own photographs. Sassoon lived in Shanghai until 1941 when, due to China’s ongoing war with Japan, he was forced to leave.
