Brian Sewell John Singer Sargent as a painter of the aristocracy 190

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To listen to more of Brian Sewell’s stories, go to the playlist: • Brian Sewell - John Singer Sargent as... • Born in Britain, art critic Brian Sewell (1931-2015) wrote for the London Evening Standard and made numerous television appearances throughout his distinguished media career. He was known for his outspoken and erudite reviews of art. [Listener: Christopher Sykes] • TRANSCRIPT: I think Sargent’s rather a good painter of everything he tackled. I think his portrait drawings are pretty boring, but then they were… don’t do that… they were a cheap solution to… or an inexpensive solution for people who really didn’t want to spend 10,000 guineas or whatever. • But he was much more than the last of the Van Dycks, as it were. And I… it seems to me a pity to take away from him those areas where he was really brilliant. Only he never… if he’d never painted a portrait, he would be much more highly regarded. So you have a paradox there, there’s a man who is famous for portraiture. Everything else is what people really like.

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