John Singer Sargent. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago)

The Nation | December 13, 1986| | Copyright

John Singer Sargent

Visiting the galleries of Baroque painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art one afternoon, some friends and I paused before Rubens's portrait of himself with his family, and reminded one another of what a remarkable man he was. A painter of stupefying energy and force, he ran a workshop, listened to music as he painted, did the classical scholarship for cycles of paintings that required erudite references, conversed easily in six languages and discharged ambassadorial missions of great delicacy --his second wife, Helen Fourment, was delivered of ...

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