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#Sargent's 'Sitwell Family' (1900) was intended to be hung @RenishawHallG as a companion portrait to #Copley's Sitwell portrait of 1786.
Artist Ambrogio Raffaele appears often in Sargent's Swiss & Italian works in the 1910s, emphasising their shared love for art en plein air.
#Sargent's studies of women in white, an evocation (or copy, depending on your view) of #Whistler's obsession with his 'white girls'.
Charles #Deering was a lifelong friend of #Sargent's (since 1876). Sargent often painted at his idyllic Italianate Miami mansion, #Vizcaya.
Is it just me, or does #Sargent always have a #FridayFeeling? One day I will have to write something on Sargent & repose/reclining/sleep.
Not specifically #Sargent-y (but could be), I am special editing next edition of @HartsMinds on #Colour Studies, please share if interested!
For a more traditional #ShakespeareSunday, an old favourite, #Sargent's Ellen Terry as Lady #Macbeth and the accompanying portrait studies.
#Sargent's portraits of Lady Randolph #Churchill (Jenny Jerome @ChartwellNT) & her son Winston c.1920s - the latter is now untraced.
'God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. Take which you please--you can never have both.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson #quote
#Sargent met #Rodin at Les XX in Brussels in 1884, after which he painted this portrait, which now hangs in the @MuseeRodinParis.