Sargent's Daughters

John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called “thoroughly absorbing” ( New York Times Book Review); “brilliant and insightful”?( Wall Street Journal); “an attractive, well-illustrated scholarly book, further enlivened by the author’s warm and friendly tone” ( Times Literary Supplement); “a uniquely crafted history” ( The Magazine Antiques); “a brilliant work of criticism, without a word of jargon in it” ( Maine Antique Digest); “sensitive and penetrating” ( Choice); and “a meticulously researched account of [the Boits’] milieu, their eccentric lifestyle, its unintended effects on their daughters, and of the creation of the enchanting masterwork” ( Cape Cod Times).