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    Sargent
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    Sargent

    By T. Leman Hare and T. Martin Wood

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sargent - T. Leman Hare

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sargent, by T. Martin Wood

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Sargent

      Author: T. Martin Wood

      Editor: T. Leman Hare

      Release Date: May 28, 2013 [EBook #42828]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SARGENT ***

      Produced by sp1nd, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY —

      T. LEMAN HARE

      SARGENT

      In the Same Series

      Artist. Author.

      VELAZQUEZ. S. L. Bensusan.

      REYNOLDS. S. L. Bensusan.

      TURNER. C. Lewis Hind.

      ROMNEY. C. Lewis Hind.

      GREUZE. Alys Eyre Macklin.

      BOTTICELLI. Henry B. Binns.

      ROSSETTI. Lucien Pissarro.

      BELLINI. George Hay.

      FRA ANGELICO. James Mason.

      REMBRANDT. Josef Israels.

      LEIGHTON. A. Lys Baldry.

      RAPHAEL. Paul G. Konody.

      HOLMAN HUNT. Mary E. Coleridge.

      TITIAN. S. L. Bensusan.

      MILLAIS. A. Lys Baldry.

      CARLO DOLCI. George Hay.

      GAINSBOROUGH. Max Rothschild.

      TINTORETTO. S. L. Bensusan.

      LUINI. James Mason.

      FRANZ HALS. Edgcumbe Staley.

      VAN DYCK. Percy M. Turner.

      LEONARDO DA VINCI. M. W. Brockwell.

      RUBENS. S. L. Bensusan.

      WHISTLER. T. Martin Wood.

      HOLBEIN. S. L. Bensusan.

      BURNE-JONES. A. Lys Baldry.

      VIGÉE LE BRUN. C. Haldane MacFall.

      CHARDIN. Paul G. Konody.

      FRAGONARD. C. Haldane MacFall.

      MEMLINC. W. H. J. & J. C. Weale.

      CONSTABLE. C. Lewis Hind.

      RAEBURN. James L. Caw.

      JOHN S. SARGENT T. Martin Wood.

      Others in Preparation.

      PLATE I.—LORD RIBBLESDALE. Frontispiece

      (In the collection of Lord Ribblesdale)

      A portrait of the author of "The Queen's Hounds and Stag-hunting

      Recollections": esteemed one of the finest of Sargent's works.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Plate Page

      I. Lord Ribblesdale Frontispiece

      In the collection of Lord Ribblesdale

      II. La Carmencita 14

      In the Luxembourg, Paris

      III. Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth 24

      In the National Gallery, Millbank

      IV. W. Graham Robertson, Esq. 34

      In the collection of W. Graham Robertson, Esq.

      V. Carnation Lily, Lily Rose 40

      In the National Gallery, Millbank

      VI. Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Lady Tennant 50

      In the collection of the Hon. Percy Wyndham

      VII. The Misses Wertheimer 60

      In the collection of Asher Wertheimer, Esq.

      VIII. Mrs. A. L. Langman 70

      In the collection of A. L. Langman, Esq., C.M.G.

      I

      Was there ever a more romantic time than our own, or a people who took everything more matter-of-factly? The paintings of a period contain all its enthusiasms and illusions. We remember the eighteenth century—at least in England—by Reynolds' and Gainsborough's art, the seventeenth century by Van Dyck's; and when we remember the eighteenth century in France, it is to think of Watteau, who expressed what his world, drifting towards disaster, cared about—an illusion of a never-ending summer's day. These names are expressive of their times, and Sargent's art, with disillusioned outlook, mirrors an obvious aspect of English life to-day. Above all others he has taken his world as it is, with the delight in life, in its everyday appearance, with which the representative artists of any period have been

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