Two sisters in crimson and cream beside a tall blue-white jar

Two young women stand close together in a dim panelled room. The nearer wears a deep crimson velvet gown with narrow shoulder straps and holds a folded fan low in her right hand; the taller one beside her is in cream satin that slips off one shoulder, a dark rosette at her breast, her arm resting on the lid of a large blue-and-white porcelain jar on a gilt stand. A red flower is pinned in each dark head of hair. Gilt picture frames show faintly in the shadow behind.

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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