BOSTON MUSEUM PICKS UP A SARGENT

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts confirmed Tuesday that it has purchased a 1902 John Singer Sargent portrait of Charles Stewart, Sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Starting on August 13, the museum’s Susan Morse Hilles Gallery will reopen as an all-Sargent space. The MFA wouldn’t say how much the new Sargent cost but did confirm that it was at least one million dollars, Geoff Edgers reports in the Boston Globe.