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The frustrated life of John Singer Sargent

Paul Fisher describes how Sargent became increasingly bored by society commissions and far preferred experimenting with watercolours or sketching the male anatomy

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent and His World Paul Fisher

Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, pp.469, 35.80

At Tate Britain this year, for the first time since 1926, nine of John Singer Sargent’s brilliantly painted and affectionately characterful portraits of the Wertheimer family have been displayed together in their own room. This was what the wealthy London art dealer Asher Wertheimer had always intended when he bequeathed these paintings to the nation.

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