i haven't seen much of john singer sargent's work, but i might finally be ready. so realism is your wheelhouse, eh? i shouldn't be surprised. as for me, the only naturalistic artist's canvas i can pick out of a pile with any confidence is bouguereau, so i'm a fish out of water here. it took ironically enrolling in a modern art history class for me to acquire a taste for that type of seeing, for the different types of realism. before then, realistic stuff was simply realistic stuff to me, and that was that.