{"product_id":"family-romance-john-singer-sargent-and-the-wertheimers-paperback","title":"Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Strouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean Strouse's \u003ci\u003eFamily Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers \u003c\/i\u003elooks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career--and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn commissioning this grand series of paintings, Asher Wertheimer, an eminent London art dealer of German-Jewish descent, became Sargent's greatest private patron and close friend. The Wertheimers worked with Rothschilds and royals, plutocrats and dukes--as did Sargent. Asher left most of his Sargent portraits to the National Gallery in London, a gift that elicited censure as well as praise: it was a new thing for a family of Jews to appear alongside the Anglo-Saxon aristocrats and dignitaries painted by earlier masters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrouse's account, set primarily in England around the turn of the twentieth century, takes in the declining fortunes of the British aristocracy and the dramatic rise of new power and wealth on both sides of the Atlantic. It travels back through hundreds of years to the Habsburg court in Vienna and forward to fascist Italy in the 1930s. Its depictions of Sargent, his sitters, their friendships and circles, and the portraits themselves light up a period that saw tumultuous social change and the birth of the modern art market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSargent brilliantly portrayed these transformations, in which the Wertheimers were key players. \u003ci\u003eFamily Romance\u003c\/i\u003e brings their interwoven stories fully to life for the first time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Strouse \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eMorgan: American Financier\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlice James: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and served as the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.67 x 5.94 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978286465325,"sku":"9781250397768","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/b2prp0Oi0b9781250397768.webp?v=1775801460","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/family-romance-john-singer-sargent-and-the-wertheimers-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}