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On John Singer Sargent's Wertheimer portraits.

More than twenty years ago, the biographer Jean Strouse visited an exhibition of John Singer Sargent’s paintings and found herself “entirely captivated.” The pictures in question were twelve portraits of the Wertheimers, a wealthy Anglo-Jewish family whom the painter had met and befriended in London. As Strouse wandered the gallery, her mind filled with…