In 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” wrote to a friend about the portrait of himself that John Singer Sargent had recently painted. The author ...

I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had been published two years earlier ...

Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert ... But in 1885, John Singer Sargent, who had been a student of Carolus-Duran in Paris with Louis’s cousin ...

A portrait of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson, which the writer called "too eccentric to be exhibited", has sold for $8.8m (£5m). US painter John Singer Sargent's portrait shows the ...

as Martha Teichner now shows us: Her name was Virginie Gautreau, but scandal turned her forever into "Madame X," and just about did in the career of 28-year-old John Singer Sargent when he ...

As a child, according to author Claire Harmon, Robert ... This is Stevenson as Harmon sees him, and her view seems as authentic, and certainly as vivid, as John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait ...

The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World ... Rockefeller, Lady Randolph Churchill, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Henry James, a longtime friend. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore ...

As a portrait of a marriage, it’s bizarre. I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had ...