John Singer Sargent: His Portrait

"This exemplary biography is manifestly fascinating." (Baltimore Sun) "[Olson has produced] an absorbing, detailed, comprehensive biography of this intriguing enigma of a man." (Library Journal) "Olson`s prose is a rich, almost Jamesian affair, ferociously literate, archly elliptical." (The New York Times) "Stanley Olson has written a superb account." (San Francisco Chronicle) "John Singer Sargent is one heck of a good book. Read it." (The Washington Times Magazine) "This biography conveys vividly and with considerable charm and wit a sense of the social world of the distinguished American portrait painter." (The Virginia Quarterly Review) "This biography rescues Sargent....from the shadows of his famous subjects." (United Press International) STANLEY OLSON, like Sargent, was an American expatriate; born in 1947 in Ohio, he lived in London from 1969 until his untimely death, from a stroke, in 1989. Scholar, writer, dandy, aesthete, gourmet, and impeccable host, he was a much-loved and admired member of London`s literary world. He authored Elinor A Life Apart and edited the abridged Harold Diaries & Letters 1930-1964.