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During this time, he was also posing for his official presidential portrait by artist John Singer Sargent. Rather than sit for one or two marathon sessions, Roosevelt agreed to pose for just one ...
John Singer Sargent. Stanley Meisler. ... Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, ...
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador to Britain, ... John Singer Sargent, Lady Anne Innes-Ker with and without hat (1910 and 1911).
John Singer Sargent is known as one of the preeminent portrait and figurative ... In her ode to Sargent’s Theodore Roosevelt portrait what appears to be an older gentleman stands toe to toe ...
On this date 84 years ago, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) ... Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson also sat for him. While Sargent never married, ...
Jackson Arn on Jean Strouse’s book about Asher Wertheimer, a Jewish art dealer, and John Singer Sargent, the portraitist whose work is too often deemed an unironic celebration of the rich.
The Grand Affair, by Paul Fisher (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). As one of the premier portraitists of the Belle Époque, John Singer Sargent lived a life befitting his status: garnering praise at the ...