Two children at a trattoria table in a dim Venetian back room

Two children lean on a scrubbed wooden table in the near corner: a girl in a blue smock over a white shirt looks straight out, her arm stretched along the table; a second child beside her in a broad blue hat bends over a large sheet of white paper, back to the light. Behind them the room recedes in warm grey and brown washes — a bar counter with a white jug and a bowl, a shelf of bottles, a row of glasses on a ledge and strings of coral-red peppers hanging from the beams.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the leading portrait painter of his generation, born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris under Carolus-Duran. The scandal of Madame X drove him to London in 1884, where he painted the aristocracy and the great merchant families for two decades before abandoning commissioned portraiture in 1907 for watercolour, landscape and mural work. He travelled constantly — Venice, the Alps, Spain, the Middle East, Florida — painting in oil and watercolour with a bravura touch that was widely imitated and never matched. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tate and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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