“Despite sharing the vulnerabilities of other long-standing media – shrinking audiences, changing consumption patterns, new competition for ad dollars – the television dinosaur has only grown fatter.”
So Who *Was* John Singer Sargent, And Who Were The People He Painted?
“Sargent, said one of his biographers, was ‘at home everywhere, and belonged nowhere.’ Born in Florence to American parents in 1856, he grew up in Europe yet always considered himself American.” And by the time he settled in London in his thirties, he “seems to have known everyone.”