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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 Portrait of Jacques Emile Blanche Portrait of Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942)
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John Singer Sargent Breton Girl with a Basket 1877
Oil on canvas
48.3 x 29.2 cm
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John Singer Sargent Lisa Colt Curtis Oil on canvas
219.3 x 104.8 cm
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John Singer Sargent Mabel Batten Mrs. George Batten Singing
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John Singer Sargent Paul Helleu Portrait of Paul Helleu
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Sarah Choate Sears Portrait of en:Sarah Choate Sears by en:John Singer Sargent, 1889.
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John Singer Sargent Ralph Curtis on the Beach in Scheveningen 1880
Oil on canvas
27.9 x 35.6 cm
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John Singer Sargent Robert de Cevrieux 1879
Oil on canvas
84.5 x 47.9 cm
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John Singer Sargent The Hermit 1908(1908)
Oil on canvas
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John Singer Sargent Venetian Glass Workers Oil on canvas
56.5 x 84.5 cm
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John Singer Sargent Venetian Loggia Oil on canvas
71.7 x 80.6 cm
1880-82
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John Singer Sargent Self Portrait 1906(1906)
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Vernon Lee 52 ?? 41 cm
1881
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John Singer Sargent A Street in Venice Oil on canvas
75.09 x 52.39 cm
1882
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John Singer Sargent Dorothy 61 x 50 cm
Oil on canvas
1900
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John Singer Sargent Madame Paul Escudier 73.2 cm x 59.5 cm
Oil on canvas
1882
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John Singer Sargent Edith Minturn Stokes Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1897 John Singer Sargent (American, 1856?C1925) Oil on canvas; 84 1/4 x 39 3/4 in. (214 x 101 cm) Bequest of Edith Minturn Phelps Stokes (Mrs. I. N.), 1938 (38.104)
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John Singer Sargent Beach Scene John Singer Sargent, Beach Scene, 1880. Oil on panel, private collection
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John Singer Sargent Mrs. Fiske Warren Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel 1903
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856?C1925 152.4 x 102.55 cm (60 x 40 3/8 in.) Oil on canvas
MFA, Boston, MA
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John Singer Sargent The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain "The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain," oil on canvas, by the American artist John Singer Sargent. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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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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