In Full Sail
Abigail Green: Sargent in London, 25 September 2025
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
by Jean Strouse.
Manchester, 311 pp., £25, November 2024,978 1 5261 8856 4 Show More
by Jean Strouse.
Manchester, 311 pp., £25, November 2024,
“... British art dealer Asher Wertheimer. ‘Sargent has just completed another Jew,’ the historian Henry Adams told a friend when he saw it, ‘Wertheimer, a worse crucifixion than history tells us of.’Adams was one of the nastiest antisemites among the American upper classes, but he was not the only contemporary to ... ”