Sargent

MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY — T. LEMAN HARE
In the Same Series
Artist. Author. VELAZQUEZ. S. L. Bensusan. REYNOLDS. S. L. Bensusan. TURNER. C. Lewis Hind. ROMNEY. C. Lewis Hind. GREUZE. Alys Eyre Macklin. BOTTICELLI. Henry B. Binns. ROSSETTI. Lucien Pissarro. BELLINI. George Hay. FRA ANGELICO. James Mason. REMBRANDT. Josef Israels. LEIGHTON. A. Lys Baldry. RAPHAEL. Paul G. Konody. HOLMAN HUNT. Mary E. Coleridge. TITIAN. S. L. Bensusan. MILLAIS. A. Lys Baldry. CARLO DOLCI. George Hay. GAINSBOROUGH. Max Rothschild. TINTORETTO. S. L. Bensusan. LUINI. James Mason. FRANZ HALS. Edgcumbe Staley. VAN DYCK. Percy M. Turner. LEONARDO DA VINCI. M. W. Brockwell. RUBENS. S. L. Bensusan. WHISTLER. T. Martin Wood. HOLBEIN. S. L. Bensusan. BURNE-JONES. A. Lys Baldry. VIGÉE LE BRUN. C. Haldane MacFall. CHARDIN. Paul G. Konody. FRAGONARD. C. Haldane MacFall. MEMLINC. W. H. J. & J. C. Weale. CONSTABLE. C. Lewis Hind. RAEBURN. James L. Caw. JOHN S. SARGENT T. Martin Wood.
Others in Preparation.

PLATE I.—LORD RIBBLESDALE. Frontispiece
(In the collection of Lord Ribblesdale)
A portrait of the author of The Queen's Hounds and Stag-hunting
Recollections : esteemed one of the finest of Sargent's works.


Was there ever a more romantic time than our own, or a people who took everything more matter-of-factly? The paintings of a period contain all its enthusiasms and illusions. We remember the eighteenth century—at least in England—by Reynolds' and Gainsborough's art, the seventeenth century by Van Dyck's; and when we remember the eighteenth century in France, it is to think of Watteau, who expressed what his world, drifting towards disaster, cared about—an illusion of a never-ending summer's day. These names are expressive of their times, and Sargent's art, with disillusioned outlook, mirrors an obvious aspect of English life to-day. Above all others he has taken his world as it is, with the delight in life, in its everyday appearance, with which the representative artists of any period have been gifted.