It’s a beautifully written book about the connections between the painter John Singer Sargent and a family he painted often, the Wertheimers. What’s less easily summarized is what most ...

To celebrate his talent for persuading people to buy expensive objects, he has hired the famous John Singer Sargent and done what nobles do: converted himself into an expensive object. What does ...

FAMILY ROMANCE: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, by Jean Strouse When London’s National Gallery exhibited nine portraits by John Singer Sargent in 1923, a magazine ran a cartoon of ...