In 1903, Sargent painted mother and daughter, Gretchen and Rachel Warren, at Fenway Court (now known as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) in Boston. The pair sit closely — almost intertwined ...

Indeed, Gardner, who created a museum, and Drexel ... She looks at us from John Singer Sargent’s bold portrait bearing Isabella ’Gardner’ s name, and from James McNeill Whistler’s ...

There was no particular arrangement because Mrs. Gardner wanted it to look like a house which had slowly accumulated things rather than a museum. A Manet hangs by a Sargent; in the Chinese Loggia ...