John Singer Sargent

John Singer SargentNow featuring improved printing, a reinforced binding in real cloth, and an individual shipping carton for protection In the early work of John Singer Sargent (18561925), Henry James saw the slightly uncanny spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn. Sargents talent, nay, genius was indeed uncanny, sustained with equal intensity through his famed society portraits, like the scandalous Madame X; his full size

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Kathryn Sutherland places Austen’s earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page

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Learn about his personality

and why Maggi Hambling chose to portray a famous scientist with four hands instead of two

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he escapes the crowds and hurry of the city by going up to the top of the tower to enjoy the quiet night skies

hollow-trunked yews—some more than a thousand years old—that grow in English churchyards

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the “Old Club

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an acclaimed sculptor in steel and bronze