Eps 760: the art of john singer sargent

Sargent's first major portrait was of his friend Fanny Watts in 1877, and was also his first Salon admission.
The painting was purchased in 1936 by the Currier Museum of Art , where it is on display.
Memorial exhibitions of Sargent's work were held in Boston in 1925, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Royal Academy and Tate Gallery in London in 1926.