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Originally Posted by Paul Foxton
I'm spoiled in that I'm only a half hour train ride from London, and am often to be found skulking around the National Portrait Gallery, usually in the room with the Sargent portraits. They have some fantastic work there, it makes so much difference to see great paintings in the flesh I think. There's a brilliant portrait of Henry James by Sargent there, up close you can really see his 'swordsman' brush strokes. Step back and they meld into a beautiful realization of the sitter. Very inspiring.
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Hi Paul and welcome to the forum.
The portrait of Henry James is one I remember from my one visit to The National Portrait Gallery in London. I think that he took this portrait farther along the road to modernism than most of his portraits.
I especially remember wondering about the shadow color of the head, it contained almost no information of shape or details and was a perfect contrast to the light that played the leading part.
The other one I remembers is Watt