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John Singer Sargent RA

Colin Hayes RA, Interior, ca. 1961

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9 months ago

10 novels about art you won’t put down

For all your summer reading needs, we’ve picked 10 contemporary novels inspired by art and artists. Escape to the studios of 1970s New York, the courts of 15th-century Paris, or the deathbed of Francis Bacon…
J.S. Sargent RA, Detail of the portrait of Henry James O.M. after being damaged by a suffragette, May 1914

Our Collection

> 4 years ago

‘Deeds not words’: Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition

The Great Spectacle charts 250 years of Summer Exhibitions – including 1914, when Suffragette Mary Wood attacked a John Singer Sargent portrait with a meat cleaver. We delve into the Royal Academy’s archive to find out how the Academy, and the public, reacted.
John Singer Sargent RA, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (detail)

Artists

8 years ago

The story behind John Singer Sargent RA’s ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’

With an exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery, we take a look at one of this Royal Academician’s most famous works.