Very much enjoyed reading more about Emily Sargent, thank you!
As for reading in 2023 I loved rediscovering Phillippa Gregory's Plantagenet novels, especially The Red Queen which is written from the perspective of a really rather horrible woman that you can't help rooting for! Also I finally read Artemisia by Anna Banti which was written in the 1940s about Artemisia Gentileschi, a really fascinating Baroque painter that I'm sure you'll have heard of. It was a really strange and memorable book, with a great backstory woven into the book itself. I'd love to know if anyone else has read it. Keep writing!
Any chance you’d share your Sargent novel? He’s always been a favorite of mine. The MFA exhibit was a highlight of my winter! I would have loved to have you as my guide with all of your insider information! Thank you for sharing about both Sargents in these two posts. I enjoyed every word!
Fascinating - wow, what incredible painters. I adore the colors. Very inspiring.
I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See and listening to the audiobook of Cutting for Stone; it has some of the most incredible language I've ever heard and I can't wait to read Covenant of Water next.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this intriguing history. I love the early works of John-the street scene with the woman and 2 men and also the three women stirs the imagination and suggest so many stories. His portraits and stunningly beautiful of course but different from these.
It’s always such a thrill to see an image of a woman painter going at it. Do you know Honor Moore’s The White Blackbird? About her grandmother, another Sargent painter (Margarett). A rollicking informative read.
How talented Emily was. And how strange that Henry James, with his acute sense of character, would call the portrait of the Boit sisters “cozy.” I find it brimful of loneliness. I recommend Erica Hirshler’s biography of the painting and see that it has also inspired a novel, which I haven’t read.
Very much enjoyed reading more about Emily Sargent, thank you!
As for reading in 2023 I loved rediscovering Phillippa Gregory's Plantagenet novels, especially The Red Queen which is written from the perspective of a really rather horrible woman that you can't help rooting for! Also I finally read Artemisia by Anna Banti which was written in the 1940s about Artemisia Gentileschi, a really fascinating Baroque painter that I'm sure you'll have heard of. It was a really strange and memorable book, with a great backstory woven into the book itself. I'd love to know if anyone else has read it. Keep writing!
Any chance you’d share your Sargent novel? He’s always been a favorite of mine. The MFA exhibit was a highlight of my winter! I would have loved to have you as my guide with all of your insider information! Thank you for sharing about both Sargents in these two posts. I enjoyed every word!
Fascinating - wow, what incredible painters. I adore the colors. Very inspiring.
I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See and listening to the audiobook of Cutting for Stone; it has some of the most incredible language I've ever heard and I can't wait to read Covenant of Water next.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading these - thank you! Please do more like this
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this intriguing history. I love the early works of John-the street scene with the woman and 2 men and also the three women stirs the imagination and suggest so many stories. His portraits and stunningly beautiful of course but different from these.
Another beautiful book about a sister to a famous artist--Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Loved this account of the Sargents.
It’s always such a thrill to see an image of a woman painter going at it. Do you know Honor Moore’s The White Blackbird? About her grandmother, another Sargent painter (Margarett). A rollicking informative read.
How talented Emily was. And how strange that Henry James, with his acute sense of character, would call the portrait of the Boit sisters “cozy.” I find it brimful of loneliness. I recommend Erica Hirshler’s biography of the painting and see that it has also inspired a novel, which I haven’t read.
As always, I learn so much by reading your blog. Sending you warm thoughts on this cold winter morning.
The title itself.. slightly offensive to some. I would be as a woman!