Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past nine months critics have been writing estimates of John Singer Sargent. All that can be said about a great man in the period immediately following his death has been said; but more eloquent than any encomium were the fantastic prices for his pictures at the recent London sale...
...Reporters, calling at the White House for the usual press conference, put the question to the President whether there was any significance in the sudden departure of Attorney General Sargent for Vermont-was he about to resign? The Presidential eye twinkled. The President took pleasure in assuring the reporters that Mr. Sargent had again become a grandfather...
...London, where Lord Ribblesdale was known for other things beside his marriage to the onetime spouse of a U. S. financier, another picture appeared the day after his death in various papers. It was a reproduction of John Sargent's famed painting of him in his hunting clothes-a picture conceived...
...Sargent," said the King to the painter at a Royal Academy banquet, "I want you to do a portrait of Ribblesdale. Wonderful name, wonderful family-600 years on one property up in Yorkshire, wit, great sportsman, two fine sons, great breed...
...Ancestor" Sargent called the portrait, recognizing in Ribblesdale's magnificent physical presence, his fastidious dress, and in the whole temper of his mind, those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard grainy phrases, grandiloquent flights of formal gallantry, puffing stocks, deep collars, square top hats. He was a celebrated boxer! People said that he could knock out any man in the House of Lords. Once he sat next to Charles Parnell in a railway carriage and, for the only time...