Reappraisal …

… How John Singer Sargent made a scene | Art and design | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The forthcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery…  makes the case for a show that would reveal all of Sargent’s range – not only the many magnificent portraits on display in this exhibition, but also his landscapes, watercolours, sketches and murals, as well as the extraordinary Gassed, the colossal late painting of soldiers blinded on the western front that anticipates “proletarian realism”.

John Singer Sargent was born on this date in 1856.