“A painter who has been looking at human heads for many years sees more than the man who casually looks up to recognize an acquaintance on the street. I do not mean that he sees more ‘character’—that is more scholarship or conceit, or pride of purse or firmness of will or shrewdness of thought, but merely that he sees the physical conformation more completely than others do. Every one sooner or later moulds his own face. It becomes marked or set or shaped in response to continued methods of thinking and acting. When that face comes under the portrait painter’s eye, he does not see the scholar, the banker, the senator, the captain of industry; but he does see perhaps, certain depression of the cheek or lines about the eyes or mouth in contractions of the lips or protrusions of the brow or jaw that appeal to him strongly because they are cast in shadow or thrown up sharply in relief of light. These surface features he paints perhaps with more emphasis than they possess in the original because they appeal to him emphatically, and presently the peculiar look that indicates the character of the man appears. What the look may indicate, or what kind of phase of character may be read in or out of the look, the portrait-painter does not know or care. He paints what he sees and has as little discernment of a character as of a mind. He gives, perhaps, without knowing their meaning, certain protrusions and recessions of the surface before him and lets the result tell what it may. In the production of the portrait accurate observation is more than half the battle. If a painter sees and knows his subject thoroughly, he will have little trouble in telling what he sees and knows; and to say of Sargent that he observes rightly and records truly is to state the case in a sentence.” OIL PAINTINGS 1 Portrait of MRS. H. F. HADDEN (1878). _Loaned by Mrs. Hadden_ 2 THE LADY WITH THE ROSE—MY SISTER (1882). _Loaned by Mrs. Hadden_ 3 “POINTY” (1884). _Loaned by Mrs. Hadden_ 4 THE SIMPLON. _Loaned by Mrs. Montgomery Sears_ 5 Portrait of MAJOR HIGGINSON _Loaned by Harvard University_ 6 Portrait of EX-PRESIDENT CHARLES W. ELIOT of Harvard University 7 Portrait of PRESIDENT LOWELL. _Loaned by Harvard University_ 8 LAKE O’HARA. _Loaned by Fogg Art Museum_ 9 Portrait of MISS MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT. _Loaned by Johns Hopkins University_ 10 Portrait of MRS. J. WILLIAM WHITE. _Loaned by Mrs. White_ 11 Portrait of MRS. FISKE WARREN AND DAUGHTER. _Loaned by Fiske Warren, Esq._ 12 Portrait of MRS. ENDICOTT. _Loaned by Mr. Wm. C. Endicott, Jr._ 13 Portrait of MRS. WILLIAM HARTLEY CARNEGIE. _Loaned by Mrs. Endicott_ 14 HIS STUDIO. _Loaned by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston_ 15 THE ROAD. _Loaned by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston_ 16 MASTER AND PUPILS. _Loaned by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston_ 17 HEAD OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON. _Loaned by Mr. Sargent_