Exhibit: 'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'

'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'
National Trust / Art Resource

Putting on Airs
John Singer Sargent's portrait of Nancy Astor in 1908 shows the archetype of American heiresses, a group that was depicted in the paintings of Sargent and the literature of Henry James and whose fashion preferences were usually over the top.

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