Three sisters in white satin on a sofa below a dark old portrait

Three women in cream and white satin fill a deep green sofa. Two sit forward on it, skirts spreading in great sweeps of white across the whole lower half of the canvas, one with a rope of pearls looped at her waist; the third stands behind at the right in gathered chiffon sleeves. Behind them the wall is almost black, hung with a large gold-framed portrait of a woman in dark dress and two smaller oval frames. White magnolia flowers and dark leaves stand at the right, and a green cushion closes the left corner.

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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