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John Singer Sargent as a painter of the aristocracy
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I think Sargent’s rather a good painter of everything he tackled. I think his portrait drawings are pretty boring, but then they were… don’t do that… they were a cheap solution to… or an inexpensive solution for people who really didn’t want to spend 10,000 guineas or whatever.
But he was much more than the last of the Van Dycks, as it were. And I… it seems to me a pity to take away from him those areas where he was really brilliant. Only he never… if he’d never painted a portrait, he would be much more highly regarded. So you have a paradox there, there’s a man who is famous for portraiture. Everything else is what people really like.
Born in England, Brian Sewell (1931-2015) was considered to be one of Britain’s most prominent and outspoken art critics. He was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art and subsequently became an art critic for the London Evening Standard; he received numerous awards for his work in journalism. Sewell also presented several television documentaries, including an arts travelogue called The Naked Pilgrim in 2003. He talked candidly about the prejudice he endured because of his sexuality.
Title: John Singer Sargent as a painter of the aristocracy
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: John Singer Sargent, Anthony van Dyck
Duration: 58 seconds
Date story recorded: 2008
Date story went live: 28 June 2012
