Two painters at work under an olive tree, a white parasol above

A woman stands at the left in a pale blue smock over a long white skirt and a straw hat with a dark band, brushes in her hand, painting at a canvas hidden behind the tree trunk. Beside her a second painter in a cream suit and boater sits on a low stool with his back to us, a wide white parasol lashed above him and a round palette resting on his knee. The ground is a dense weave of green grass and rose-brown fallen leaves; olive trunks and hot sunlit field close the distance. Signed at the lower right.

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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