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John Singer Sargent 1856-1925
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John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 ?C April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
Before Sargent??s birth, his father FitzWilliam was an eye surgeon at the Wills Hospital in Philadelphia. After his older sister died at the age of two, his mother Mary (n??e Singer) suffered a mental collapse and the couple decided to go abroad to recover. They remained nomadic ex-patriates for the rest of their lives. Though based in Paris, Sargent??s parents moved regularly with the seasons to the sea and the mountain resorts in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. While she was pregnant, they stopped in Florence, Italy because of a cholera epidemic, and there Sargent was born in 1856. A year later, his sister Mary was born. After her birth FitzWilliam reluctantly resigned his post in Philadelphia and accepted his wife??s entreaties to remain abroad. They lived modestly on a small inheritance and savings, living an isolated life with their children and generally avoiding society and other Americans except for friends in the art world. Four more children were born abroad of whom two lived past childhood.
Though his father was a patient teacher of basic subjects, young Sargent was a rambunctious child, more interested in outdoor activities than his studies. As his father wrote home, ??He is quite a close observer of animated nature.?? Contrary to his father, his mother was quite convinced that traveling around Europe, visiting museums and churches, would give young Sargent a satisfactory education. Several attempts to give him formal schooling failed, owning mostly to their itinerant life. She was a fine amateur artist and his father was a skilled medical illustrator. Early on, she gave him sketchbooks and encouraged drawing excursions. Young Sargent worked with care on his drawings, and he enthusiastically copied images from the Illustrated London News of ships and made detailed sketches of landscapes. FitzWilliam had hoped that his son??s interest in ships and the sea might lead him toward a naval career.
At thirteen, his mother reported that John ??sketches quite nicely, & has a remarkably quick and correct eye. If we could afford to give him really good lessons, he would soon be quite a little artist.?? At age thirteen, he received some watercolor lessons from Carl Welsch, a German landscape painter. Though his education was far from complete, Sargent grew up to be a highly literate and cosmopolitan young man, accomplished in art, music, and literature. He was fluent in French, Italian, and German. At seventeen, Sargent was described as ??willful, curious, determined and strong?? (after his mother) yet shy, generous, and modest (after his father). He was well-acquainted with many of the great masters from first hand observation, as he wrote in 1874, ??I have learned in Venice to admire Tintoretto immensely and to consider him perhaps second only to Michael Angelo and Titian.?? |
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John Singer Sargent Garden Study of the Vickers Children 1884
54 1/4" x 35 7/8"
Flint Institute of Art, Michigan
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John Singer Sargent Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler 1893
49 3/8 x 40 1/2 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman
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John Singer Sargent Paul Helleu Sketching With his Wife 1889
26 1/8" x 32 1/8"
The Brooklyn Museum
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John Singer Sargent In the Luxembourg Gardens 1879
25.5" x 36"
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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John Singer Sargent El Jaleo 1882
93 3/8" x 138 1/2"
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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John Singer Sargent Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot 1888
26 3/4 x 25 in
Terra Museum of American Art
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John Singer Sargent Nude Study of Thomas E McKeller 1917-20
49 1/2 x 33 1/4 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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John Singer Sargent A Morning Walk 1888
26 1/2" x 19 3/4"
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John Singer Sargent The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882
87 3/8" x 87 5/8"
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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John Singer Sargent View of Capri 1878
10 x 13 1/4 in
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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John Singer Sargent Fete Familiale 1887
24 x 29 in
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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John Singer Sargent Millet s Garden 1886 27 x 35 in
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John Singer Sargent Fume d Ambre Gris 1880
54 x 26 3/4 in (139.1 x 90.8 cm)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass
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John Singer Sargent The Breakfast Table 1884
21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
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John Singer Sargent Oyster Gatherers of Cancale 1878
38 1/8" x 48 1/2"
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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John Singer Sargent Head of an Italian Woman 1880
Conajoharie Library and Art Gallery, New York
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John Singer Sargent The Wyndham Sisters 1899
114" x 84"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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John Singer Sargent On His Holidays 1901
54" x 96"
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, England
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John Singer Sargent An Artist in his Studio 1904
22 1/8" x 28 3/8"
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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John Singer Sargent The Fountain at Villa Torlonia in Frascati 1907
28 1/8" x 22 1/4"
Art Institute of Chicago
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John Singer Sargent
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1856-1925
John Singer Sargent Locations
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 ?C April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
Before Sargent??s birth, his father FitzWilliam was an eye surgeon at the Wills Hospital in Philadelphia. After his older sister died at the age of two, his mother Mary (n??e Singer) suffered a mental collapse and the couple decided to go abroad to recover. They remained nomadic ex-patriates for the rest of their lives. Though based in Paris, Sargent??s parents moved regularly with the seasons to the sea and the mountain resorts in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. While she was pregnant, they stopped in Florence, Italy because of a cholera epidemic, and there Sargent was born in 1856. A year later, his sister Mary was born. After her birth FitzWilliam reluctantly resigned his post in Philadelphia and accepted his wife??s entreaties to remain abroad. They lived modestly on a small inheritance and savings, living an isolated life with their children and generally avoiding society and other Americans except for friends in the art world. Four more children were born abroad of whom two lived past childhood.
Though his father was a patient teacher of basic subjects, young Sargent was a rambunctious child, more interested in outdoor activities than his studies. As his father wrote home, ??He is quite a close observer of animated nature.?? Contrary to his father, his mother was quite convinced that traveling around Europe, visiting museums and churches, would give young Sargent a satisfactory education. Several attempts to give him formal schooling failed, owning mostly to their itinerant life. She was a fine amateur artist and his father was a skilled medical illustrator. Early on, she gave him sketchbooks and encouraged drawing excursions. Young Sargent worked with care on his drawings, and he enthusiastically copied images from the Illustrated London News of ships and made detailed sketches of landscapes. FitzWilliam had hoped that his son??s interest in ships and the sea might lead him toward a naval career.
At thirteen, his mother reported that John ??sketches quite nicely, & has a remarkably quick and correct eye. If we could afford to give him really good lessons, he would soon be quite a little artist.?? At age thirteen, he received some watercolor lessons from Carl Welsch, a German landscape painter. Though his education was far from complete, Sargent grew up to be a highly literate and cosmopolitan young man, accomplished in art, music, and literature. He was fluent in French, Italian, and German. At seventeen, Sargent was described as ??willful, curious, determined and strong?? (after his mother) yet shy, generous, and modest (after his father). He was well-acquainted with many of the great masters from first hand observation, as he wrote in 1874, ??I have learned in Venice to admire Tintoretto immensely and to consider him perhaps second only to Michael Angelo and Titian.??
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