The 49 other people on board come from 15 countries and four continents, and range in age from a 20-year-old who won the trip in a drawing to a septuagenarian Chilean watercolorist.
There may be an irony in Sargent's often taking a backseat to Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as America's most masterly watercolorist, but that may have more to do with the latter's primary focus on American themes as compared with Sargent's expatriate life and subject matter.