Laura Gascoigne

Dazzling but it’s all show: Tate Britain’s Sargent and Fashion reviewed

His paying clients can look empty-headed but his invited subjects have an interior life

From magazine issue: 02 March 2024

The best male portraits are all sinister: ‘Dr Pozzi at Home’, 1881, by John Singer Sargent. Credit: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

issue 02 March 2024

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