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With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Luceyilluminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconichigh-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent'sportraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded inhis subjects' lives. Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote RockyMountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanlerstepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as theveiled image of Sally Fairchild—beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued—emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Luciainto an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collectedboth art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these womenlived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depictionof the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvasesdefined the era.
