Jean Strouse

A glittering account of John Singer Sargent's relationship with an eminent Edwardian family. In Family Romance, Jean Strouse tells the story of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimer family, structured around the twelve portraits he painted of them between 1898 and 1908. Asher Wertheimer was a London art dealer of German-Jewish descent. A prominent figure of the...