• Effortless Virtuosity
• Limited Working-out of Ideas
• Application of Paint
• Canvases and Priming
• The Painter's Palette
• Conclusion

The authors are very grateful to David Fraser Jenkins, Stephen Hackney, and Annette King for making useful comments on the text; Annette Southall who initiated research into Sargent's techniques when she began the conservation treatment of the Wertheimer portraits, continued later by Lesley Stevenson; Kate Oliver, who made information available from the Harvard University Art Museums; and Lydia Vagts (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) who has very generously shared her unpublished research with us.