Sargent painted all of the panels for Triumph of Religion on canvas in England. He then accompanied them to Boston to orchestrate their installation in four separate phases over a twenty-four-year period between 1895 and 1919. Triumph of Religion was far more ambitious—and far more complicated in both style and idea—than anything the artist attempted in his subsequent mural commissions. Special Collections Hall, Boston Public Library, looking northeast (1999 photo)