Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed U.S. Portraitist John Singer Sargent put the whole Sitwell family on canvas. (The picture is now at Renishaw.) "No picture, I am sure," says Sir Osbert, "could have given the artist more trouble, for my father held strong views concerning the relationship of the patron to the painter." Though Sir George rarely mounted a horse, he insisted on being portrayed in a dark grey riding jacket and boots...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...
...Europe. The book is unique among U.S. first novels in that it is strictly a novel of character. So carefully does the author outline each feature in her pictures of Helen, George and Lydia that the book takes on the quality of a preserved family parlor with portraits by Sargent on the walls...
Army and Navy officers and men in training in the Cambridge area have been invited to a dance which will be held tomorrow evening at Memorial Hall. Ruby Newman and his orchestra will supply the music, and girls from Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Sargent have been invited by the committee...
After announcing that their pictures will be taken by Sargent Studies at the end of the present term and the beginning of the next, and that posts on the editorial and business boards are still open, the Red Book, Freshman yearbook, revealed the names of nine staff members already appointed...