In 1907 John Singer Sargent announced that he was through painting portraits in oils. After all he was already rich beyond reason and saw no need to keep doing work that bored him. But he did continue to do portraits in charcoal, many of them subjects he chose himself because he admired their work. Last year the US National Portrait Gallery tried to host
an exhibition of these portraits, but instead the epidemic broke out and the museum closed. Above, Lady Helen Vincent, 1905.
Gertrude Kingston, 1909
William Butler Yeats, 1908
Moorfield Storey, a noted civil rights attorney, 1917
Henry James, 1912
Ruth Draper as a Dalmatian Peasant, 1914
Lady Diana Manners, 1914
Ernest Schelling, 1910
Charlotte Nichols Greene and Her Son Stephen Greene, 1924
Dr. William Sturgin Bigelow, 1917
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