title: Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends
author: Richard Ormond
description: "<i>Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends</i> unites informative essays by noted scholars with a wealth of imagery to offer fresh insights into Sargent&rsquo;s life and work. The book also includes drawings, early works, a richly illustrated chronology, and new research, making it one of the most comprehensive volumes on this renowned American painter." -<i>Artdaily.org</i><br><br>"<i>Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends</i>, written by Richard Ormond, one of the foremost authorities on the artist,<b> showcases Sargent&rsquo;s cosmopolitan career </b>in a new light&mdash;through his bold portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians, many of them his close friends&mdash;giving us a picture of the artist as an intellectual and connoisseur of the music, art, and literature of his day. . . .&#160;Accompanying [major exhibitions&#160;at the National Portrait Gallery and The Metropolitan Museum of Art], this is the first book devoted to the entire career of this renowned American painter through these brilliant portraits." -<i>ArtFixdaily.com<br></i><br>"Think Gilded Age, that glittering era of sophistication and new money at the end of the 19th century. John Singer Sargent painted and lived it. He cultivated commissions from its rich, and became famous for his luscious, flattering, society portraits, which is exactly what critics often held against him.&#160;And over time, the go-to portrait painter of his day lost interest in the grand paintings that made his name, <b>preferring people in informal settings</b>,<b> and watercolors regarded as some of the finest ever painted</b>. . .&#160;90 years after his death, in 1925, <b>it is those extraordinary, telling portraits that are treasured all over the world</b>."<br>-<i>CBS NEWS</i>
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  # Picture and Text
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  PICTURE AND TEXT
  
  
  By Henry James
  
  
  Harper And Brothers—MDCCCXCIII
  
  
  
  
  
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  Two of the following papers were originally published, with
  
  
  illustrations, in Harper's Magazine and the title of one of them—the
  
  
  first of titles has been altered from “Our Artists in Europe.” The
  
  
  other, the article on Mr. Sargent, was accompanied by reproductions of
  
  
  several of his portraits. The notice of Mr. Abbey and that of Mr.
  
  
  Reinhart appeared in Harper's Weekly. That of Mr. Alfred Parsons
  
  
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