John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) - An Artist in His Studio, c.1904 (Oil on canvas. MFA, Boston) - Sargent’s friend, the Italian artist Ambrogio Raffele, is deep in contemplation, working on a bucolic landscape. Raffele is using his cramped and untidy hotel room as a studio; he and his landscape painting are shifted to the left corner. Surrounded by smaller sketches presumably made outdoors, Raffele holds a palette that bears blobs of thick, bright paint and a fistful of brushes…