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No One Does It Like Sargent: The Chronicler of Gilded Age Style

As the turn-of-the-century’s best-known portraitist, John Singer Sargent captured many of the era’s most prolific sitters, including aristocrats, industrialists, politicians, artists, and performers, who all formed part of his remarkable clientele. Yet Sargent was, and understood himself to be, far more than a painter of elegant likenesses. In many ways, he operated as an artistic Read more