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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 madame x mk247
1884,oil on canvas,82.5x43.25 in,209.5x110 cm,metropolitan museum of art,new york,ny,usa
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John Singer Sargent lsabella stewart gardner mk247
1888,oil on canvas,74.75x31.5 in,190x80 cm,isabella stewart gardner museum,boston,ma,uas
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John Singer Sargent Bo Aite daughters mk250 Year in 1882. Oil on canvas, about 221.9 x 221.9 cm. To thank the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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John Singer Sargent The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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John Singer Sargent Spanish Dancer by John Singer Sargent Spanish Dancer by John Singer Sargent
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John Singer Sargent Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted, 1895, oil on canvas, 91 x 61 1/4 in.
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John Singer Sargent Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent, 1893
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John Singer Sargent Sargent emphasized Almina Wertheimer exotic beauty in 1908 by dressing her en turquerie Sargent emphasized Almina Wertheimer's exotic beauty in 1908 by dressing her en turquerie
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John Singer Sargent Gondoliers Siesta "Gondoliers' Siesta", c. 1904
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John Singer Sargent Morning Walk by John Singer Sargent Morning Walk by John Singer Sargent
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John Singer Sargent Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
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John Singer Sargent Fumee d ambre gris 1880. Oil on canvas. 54.25 x 35.3 in. (139.1 x 90.6 cm). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
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John Singer Sargent mme edouard pailleron 1879
collection mme henry bourget-pailleron
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John Singer Sargent Dolce Far Niente Oil on canvas
41.3 x 71.7 cm (16.26 x 28.23 in)
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John Singer Sargent Sargent John Singer Portrait of Two Children aka The Forbes Brothers Description Sargent John Singer Portrait of Two Children aka The Forbes Brothers.jpg
Portrait of Two Children (Alternative title: The Forbes Brothers)
Date 1887
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John Singer Sargent Gourds 35.1 X 50 cm (13.82 X 19.68 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent Description Sargent Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent 1904.jpg
English: Portrait of Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon by John Singer Sargent
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John Singer Sargent Hills of Galilee 30.5 X 45.7 cm (12.01 X 17.99 in)
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John Singer Sargent In Switzerland 24.6 X 33.2 cm (9.69 X 13.07 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of French writer Edouard Pailleron 1879(1879)
Oil on canvas
127 x 94 cm (50 x 37 in.)
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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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