Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because John Sargent is American that so vigorous an opposition to the portraits has appeared...
Asked this question, Sir John Butler, leader of the protest in the House, replied: "Is Sargent an American? He has lived here so long that I had forgotten...
...John Butler gave three reasons for his opposition to the gallery s action: 1) "the paintings are not up to Sargent's own high standard ; 2) "it is unwise to break tradition and accept paintings before time had proved their excellence"; 3) "in any case, nine paintings of the same family by the same artist are more than were needed for one wall of a single gallery...
Like many of the greatest American artists, Sargent is hardly American at all, except in blood. He was born in Florence (1856), studied in Paris, has always lived in London...
...name has all the flavor of a national tradition to the general public. In novels of ten years ago, if a fashionable heroine wished a resplendent portrait as the finishing grace of her career, Sargent was inevitably called...