| Foreword | 7 |
| Acknowledgements | 9 |
| John Singer Sargent: A Biographical Sketch | 11 |
| Sargent's Art | 23 |
| Sargent in Public: On the Boston Murals | 45 |
| Catalogue | |
| 1 | Early Landscapes and Subject Pictures | 61 |
| 2 | Paris and the Salon | 83 |
| 3 | Impressionism | 105 |
| 4 | Portraiture in England and America | 129 |
| 5 | The Murals | 177 |
| 6 | Sargent the Watercolourist | 209 |
| 7 | Late Landscapes, Figure Studies and the War | 241 |
| Chronology | 272 |
| Select Bibliography | 278 |
| Index | 282 |