Synopses & Reviews
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"This exemplary biography is manifestly fascinating." (Baltimore Sun)
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"[Olson has produced] an absorbing, detailed, comprehensive biography of this intriguing enigma of a man." (Library Journal)
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"Stanley Olson has written a superb account." (San Francisco Chronicle)
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"This biography conveys vividly and with considerable charm and wit a sense of the social world of the distinguished American portrait painter." (The Virginia Quarterly Review)
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"[Olson has produced] an absorbing, detailed, comprehensive biography of this intriguing enigma of a man."--
Library Journal"Olson's prose is a rich, almost Jamesian affair, ferociously literate, archly elliptical."--the New York Times
"Stanley Olson has written a superb account."--San Francisco Chronicle
"John Singer Sargent is one heck of a good book. Read it."--the Washington Times Magazine
"This biography conveys vividly and with considerable charm and wit a sense of the social world of the distinguished American portrait painter."--the Virginia Quarterly Review
"This biography rescues Sargent . . . from the shadows of his famous subjects."--United Press International
About the Author
Stanley Olson, like Sargent, was an American expatriate. Born in 1947, in Ohio, he lived in London from 1969 until his untimely death, from a stroke, in 1989. Scholar, writer, dandy, aesthete, gourmet, and impeccable host, he was a much-loved and admired member of London's literary world. He authored
Elinor Wylie: A Life Apart and edited the abridged
Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930-1964.