...superb group of the children of Mr. Edward Boit, exhibited two years later, it offers the slightly " uncanny " spectacle of a talent which on the very...freshness of youth combined with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations. My admiration for this deeply distinguished work is such...

...friends. Of the Portrait of a Young Lady, one of the most brilliant of his early works Henry James wrote : "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...us only for an hour; it is the freshness of youth with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations." As the years passed many...

...friends. Of the Portrait of a Young Lady, one of the most brilliant of his early works Henry James wrote: "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...us only for an hour; it is the freshness of youth with the artistic experience, really felt and assimilated, of generations." As the years passed many...

...Mile. LP, and also known as The Lady with a Rose, of which Henry James wrote: "It offers the slightly uncanny spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn. . . . The picture has this sign of productions of the first order, that its style would clearly save...

...command, indeed, that was one of the wonders of his day. Henry James was moved to remark on "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn." In 1878, when he was twenty-two, his painting "Oyster Gatherers at Cancale" was shown at the Salon...

...decade of John Singer Sargent's career offered to the acute perceptions of Henry James the "slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn."1 The writer chose his words carefully, selecting his adjective to convey the almost magical...

...precocity as a temporal disjunction.8 To his eye the "astonishing" painting "ofFer[ed] the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn" (218). For James, then, the uncanniness of the image amounts to its manifestation of an indeterminate...

...passing into another manner." James was disturbed by Sargent's precocity, for "it offers the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn"; James found himself "murmuring, 'Yes, but what is left?' and even wondering whether it be an advantage...

...Soon after Mr. Sargent exhibited his " Portrait of a Young Lady" in 1881, Henry James wrote of it, "This magnificent work offers the 'uncanny' spectacle...threshold of its career has nothing more to learn."* This perfect command of medium which Mr. Sargent has always possessed, this freedom, which is really...