John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

As Trevor Fairbrother has written of Sargent in The Sensualist: “His images present a vibrant, forceful realism while subtly projecting emotions, desires and intuitions as their visual subtext. He jabbed, dabbed, smeared, slapped, and scratched his paint surfaces; he deployed brilliant, murky, flashy, peculiar, and ravishing colours. All are the expressions of a man whose instincts and appetites were deeply sensual.”