Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting

“Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. ­Hirshler explores in intriguing detail in Sargent's Daughters.” –Megan Marshall, The New York Times Sunday Book Review

Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's greatest images. The painting of four young...