Was John Singer Sargent in the closet?
Thou Shalt Not Steal, 1918It's considered poor form to speculate on the sex lives of the dead, I know.And yet it's always tempting - particularly in such cases as John Singer Sargent's. (And, yes, P. L. Travers'!)Like Travers, Sargent never made a public declaration of sexual preference; but if he was a closet case, unlike Travers, he never settled down with a same-sex companion (unless you count his mans…