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After the nightmare picture below comes this one of ethereal beauty. The sitter was recovering from an illness at the time which may have contributed to the melancholic atmosphere. But it cannot be denied that the painter—John Singer Sargent—knew how to paint the aristocracy. He painted people as they would like have been seen and not all his paintings are so dreamlike. There is however, an elegance in his style that makes even his most forceful subjects to somehow exist on a different plane.
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