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Exhibitions

Sargent, National Portrait Gallery, review: he was so good he should have been better

Plus: a engaging exhibition of babies’ heads by Jacob Epstein at the Foundling Museum

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

National Portrait Gallery, until 25 May

Sir Jacob Epstein: Babies and Bloomsbury

Foundling Museum, until 10 May

The artist Malcolm Morley once fantasised about a magazine that would be devoted to the practice of painting just as some publications are to — say — cricket. It would be filled with articles extolling feats of the brush, rather than the bat. ‘Well painted, sir!’ the contributors would exclaim at an especially brilliant display of visual agility.

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