Sargent's women: four lives behind the canvas - Donna M. Lucey

In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M.

Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent.

With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives.

These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions--yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society's rules.