Family Romance: An Evening with Jean Strouse

In 1897, Asher Wertheimer, a British art dealer, began to commission John Singer Sargent’s largest private project: twelve stunning portraits of his socially prominent Jewish family. The result was a significant and distinctive artistic series, as the Times’ critic wrote: “more than a group of family portraits, and something besides a little set of great masterpieces of painting”. In this incisive account, celebrated biographer Jean Strouse (Morgan: American Financier) portrays the intersection of two outsiders’ lives — Singer Sargent, an expatriate artist, and Wertheimer, a wealthy “Anglo-Jew”— during England’s Edwardian age, amidst “the dazzle and unease of a world in flux”. Strouse, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, was the director of the famed Cullman Center at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017.

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