Isabella Stewart Gardner: Mrs. Jack

There are many different images of Isabella Stewart Gardner through her lifetime. The paintings of her are only one set of images that we are presented with when searching for information on her. The other images we are given are the interpretations of her from her biography as well as reports written about her. Her images show a woman looking young for her age as well as a carefree spirit, and then we see her image in failing health. I believe that she was a woman ahead of her time in her views and her actions within the community that she lived.
The most common image of Gardner that we find when searching is her first portrait done by John Sargent in 1888. Isabella met Sargent in 1886 through a mutual friend, Henry James. "Mrs. Jack first fell in love with Sargent's work when she saw his powerful El Jaleo (1882)." Sargent came to America two years after their first meeting and decided to paint Isabella. Sargent tried eight times to......

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Title: Isabella Stewart Gardner
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