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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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John Singer Sargent
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(1856–1925) American artist based from 1885 in London, where he rapidly became the most fashionable portrait painter, with an easy elegance of style which perfectly matched the requirements of his sitters. After 1907 he declined almost every commission, spending each summer painting watercolours in Italy and the Alps and working in the winter on two large series of murals in the USA (in Boston). During a brief period as a war artist in World War I he produced the large and powerful Gassed (1918–19, Imperial War Museum).
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