Sargentologyさんのイラストまとめ

If Sargent ever took a loss on a work, it would have been La Carmencita. Petulant, flighty, & demanding, she requested ever increasing amounts of jewels to sit for her portrait - and even then she never sat still. Sargent eventually spent £3,000+ in 💎💎 just to get it finished.

Like many young aesthetes, Sargent was enthralled by Wagner. He first encountered it at the Pasdeloup in Paris. In the 1880s, he would go on to paint Wagner's mistress Judith Gautier, culminating in a visit to that musical mecca, the Bayreuth festival in 1886.

Handicapped by a childhood spinal injury, Sargent's sister Emily was a central force in his life. As constant travel companion & watercolourist, she hosted all his parties, managed the house, & generally ran the show. She lived near the Tite Street studio until her death in 1936.

Sargent was bewitched by the angularity of Carrara's landscape&the labour of its workers. "He slept for weeks in a hut so devoid of comfort that his [younger] companions fled after a few days,unable to stand the Spartan rigors tolerated by their senior w/such serene indifference"

In 1913, Sir Hugh Lane made a conditional loan of 39 works to the @NationalGallery. To assess its value, the NG turned to Sargent to write the report, which was very +. Yet another ex of Sargent's behind the scenes role in the creation of our modern art collections. @TheHughLane

Happy Valentine's Day everyone❤️ A few of my favourite examples of great Sargent-y love stories. The Phelps-Stokes (the loving husband replacing the Great Dane), the painting partnership of the de Glehns, & Radclyffe Hall's posthumous remembrance of her great ❤️ Mabel Batten.

I imagine by now we are all at this level of repose, but in more festive attire (not many 🎄 jumpers in Sargent's work sadly - it could have really livened up his career😆). In any case, Merry Christmas/Happy New Year, and we will see you in 2021 for more Sargent shenanigans.

Netflix has used Sargent's portrait of Mrs Hammersley as a centre piece to their new remake of Rebecca. I don't think it was the right painting for it. I feel it should have been something more like the Duchess of Sutherland. Anyone else managed to catch it? What did you think?

It's hard to forget Sargent's portrait of heiress Daisy Leiter in all her silk swirling glory.The windswept look, however, has been around for awhile. The portrait was modelled after Reynolds' Lady Halliday, a work which, at the time, belonged to Sargent's friend Asher Wertheimer

'Meddlesome Millie', the Duchess of Sutherland, is one of Sargent's most famous portraits. Outside the ethereal sparkle, she ran an ambulance unit in WWI & also campaigned for worker reform (hence the nickname) that saw the removal of lead paint from use @ Staffordshire potteries