Richard Ormond is Sargent's great-nephew and was formerly Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He and Elaine Kilmurray are co-authors of a catalogue raisonné of Sargent's work (Yale University Press, 1998-2015). They were joint curators of exhibitions of the artist's work at Tate, London (and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (and Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Denver Museum of Art). Richard Ormond was curator of a recent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).