TY - JOUR T1 - To the Life JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 260 LP - 260 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X685009 VL - 65 IS - 634 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2015/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/634/260.abstract N2 - Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends National Portrait Gallery, London, 12 February 2015— 25 May 2015There is something of the St Jerome about John Singer Sargent’s mesmerising portrait of Auguste Rodin, just on the left as you enter this wonderful exhibition, but little that is ascetic or penitential thereafter. Sargent’s bravura portraits capture the essence, confidence, allure, and eccentricity of an age, his life, and art criss-crossing continents, from New England to Paris, New York to London, the Cotswolds and Sicily, to Syria and Palestine. He was part of the beau monde of the late 19th century, and seemed to know tout le monde. He was a handsome and private man, who never married, and whose sexuality, probably … ER -