Isabella Gardner, born Isabella Stewart on April 14 ... She looks at us from John Singer Sargent’s bold portrait bearing Isabella ’Gardner’ s name, and from James McNeill Whistler ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, the wealthy Bostonian Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924 ... observers often noted. John Singer Sargent, who painted her several times and was the first artist ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into ... Court (now known as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) in Boston.