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John Singer Sargent RA

J.S. Sargent RA, Detail of the portrait of Henry James O.M. after being damaged by a suffragette, May 1914

Our Collection

< 2 years ago

‘Deeds not words’: Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition

The Great Spectacle charts 250 years of Summer Exhibitions – including 1914, when Suffragette Mary Wood attacked a John Singer Sargent portrait with a meat cleaver. We delve into the Royal Academy’s archive to find out how the Academy, and the public, reacted.
John Singer Sargent RA, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (detail)

Artists

5 years ago

The story behind John Singer Sargent RA’s ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’

With an exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery, we take a look at one of this Royal Academician’s most famous works.