Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

by Jean Strouse

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"Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family"--

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Readers (and they are legion) interested in Sargent (1856-1925) — his peripatetic life, his array of rich and accomplished friends, his fluctuating critical reception — will want to dive into “Family Romance.” Likewise, anyone interested in the Wertheimers, a British family of German-Jewish descent who played a major role in art and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, show more will find it absorbing.

You feel in good hands reading Strouse. She is measured, her research is impeccable, and she tells of interesting lives in interesting times with interesting footnotes to boot.
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Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post
Nov 24, 2024
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A journalist and general editor at Newsweek, Strouse has written a biography of Alice James, the sister of Henry and William James, that one critic observed to be "more than a biography, a complicated work of social history." In Alice James: A Biography (1980), Strouse presents James as a potentially brilliant woman who was emotionally crippled by show more the conventions of nineteenth-century society. Denied the opportunities available to her brothers, Alice "made a career of emotional collapse." The biography won the Bancroft Prize in American history and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Art & Design, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
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759.13Arts & recreationPaintingHistory, geographic treatment, biographyNorth AmericaUnited States
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ND237 .S3 .S77Fine ArtsPaintingPaintingHistory
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