In 1939 the pictures he valued most went to the Tate Gallery, including 9 out of the 10 large color prints by Blake, as well as the Sargent portrait and the Whistler harbor scene.
I was going to do a self-portrait, like a Sargent portrait.
There is plenty left, including a Sargent portrait of "Mrs. Jack," as Boston called her.
It's hard to imagine that Sitwell could get around to admiring the Matisse, the Picasso, the Braque, the Rodin bronze or the Sargent portrait of Ethel Barrymore.
The camera almost seems to be begging her to change her silly, unflattering flapper clothes and sit still for a Sargent portrait.
The interior decorator Dorothy Draper helped Sonnenberg decorate his house with imported English paneling, antiques and art, including a Sargent portrait.
Katharine Hamnett, once known for her message T-shirts ("Save the Whales," for example) now favors the Edwardian dandy look, and velvet dresses flopping off the shoulders and worn with big hats, like a Sargent portrait.
Passing a Sargent portrait at the Met later in the day, he likens it to a Kline in its division of lights and darks.
The Sargent portrait (1883-84) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A reunion of a dozen Sargent portraits, commissioned by the wealthy Jewish art dealer Asher Wertheimer.