From The Times: April 16, 1925 We announce with much regret that Mr John Singer Sargent, RA, who was by general consent the greatest portrait-painter of his time, died suddenly at his house in Chelsea on Tuesday night at the age of 69. More than a painter of genius is lost to the world by his death. His friends will sorely miss the burly figure, the gentleness that went with his great stature to make him something like a good giant in a fairy story, the quiet geniality, the brilliant talks among intimates, the modesty, the active good will.
Music has lost a devout servant, and literature a lover more ardent than she is apt to find among artists. Oil-painting, water-colour and drawing are the poorer by the lack of what a man who, though nearly seventy, seemed still full of vigour might yet have added to their stores of beauty..
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