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The year is 1881 and John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) has captured his close friend, the art historian aesthetic critic Vernon Lee (1856–1935) on canvas. Sargent’s bravura brushstroke conveys Lee’s keen intelligence sharp wit, with inquisitive eyes peering through her gleaming spectacles. Reinforcing agency to look, as a woman historian, portrait status an authoritative cultural mediator who, Hi...