Two triple portraits of ladies of the nobility, which alluded to two quite racy paintings of drunken feasts, and a goddess with 8 breasts. What is going on?
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How Sargent’s portrait of a young New York bride turned into a provocative account of The New Woman.
What does a painter do when the person who commissioned their portrait won’t pay, and demands the painting be withdrawn from show?
From success to success, she painted the President’s family, and France’s elder statesman and a good friend of Monet.
Her portraits are of the New Woman: well-educated, thoughtful, and increasingly in control of their own destiny.
It has been claimed that she “gave up painting” after marrying her more famous husband in 1884. Did his best student really stop painting like that?
He kept a pictorial record of his wife and children in more formal portraits too. Here’s a selection.
He seems to have loved painting children. Here is his family, at leisure and play, in informal views, often in pastel.
His studio was a recurrent motif which tells us much about his promotional activity, and his extended persona.
One dancer, three painters, four portraits of the dancer, and two portraits of Chase himself.
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