Family romance

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

Family romance

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse
Book - 2024

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

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37413322466923 Available Non-fiction 759.13 STROUSE
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strouse, Jean, 1945- (Author)
Other Authors: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
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300 |a xxii, 311 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations (some color), genealogical table ;  |c 24 cm 
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505 0 |a Wertheimer Family tree -- Introduction -- Part I: Arrivals. Wertheimer's gift -- Sargent's paintbrush -- Merchants of art -- S. Wertheimer and Sons -- Part II: Harmony and discord. Artist and patron -- Nest of vipers -- 'Wicked Uncle Charlie' -- Part III: Succession. Sons -- Daughters -- Oriental accents -- Part IV: Departures. Asher: Art wealth -- Ena in full sail: A Vele Gonfie -- Ruby: 'Enemy Alien' -- Part V: Flux. 'An age on edge' -- Legacies -- Supplement A: Sargent's Jewish sitters -- Supplement B: Locations of Wertheimer images -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 
520 |a "Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a "Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career - and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age. In commissioning this grand series of paintings, Asher Wertheimer, an eminent London art dealer of German-Jewish descent, became Sargent's greatest private patron and close friend. The Wertheimers worked with Rothschilds and royals, plutocrats and dukes - as did Sargent. Asher left most of his Sargent portraits to the National Gallery in London, a gift that elicited censure as well as praise: it was a new thing for a family of Jews to appear alongside the Anglo-Saxon aristocrats and dignitaries painted by earlier masters. Strouse's account, set primarily in England around the turn of the twentieth century, takes in the declining fortunes of the British aristocracy and the dramatic rise of new power and wealth on both sides of the Atlantic. It travels back through hundreds of years to the Habsburg court in Vienna and forward to fascist Italy in the 1930s. Its depictions of Sargent, his sitters, their friendships and circles, and the portraits themselves light up a period that saw tumultuous social change and the birth of the modern art market." --  |c Adapted from publisher's description. 
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