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Portrait of Ralph Curtis on the Beach
at Scheveningen, 1880
Oil on panel

Gift of the Walter Clay Hill and Family Foundation, 73.3

John Singer Sargent painted this portrait of his
cousin during a trip they took to the Netherlands
in 1880 to study the paintings of Frans Hals. Here
Sargent combines drawing and brushwork in a
single action, as Hals did to capture Curtis's air
of carefree sophistication.