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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 Ralph Curtis on the Beach at Scheveningen (mk18) 1880,oil on board,17 5/8 x 20 7/8 in
Gift of the Walter Clay Hill and Family Foundation Collection:High Museum of Art,Atlanta,GA
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John Singer Sargent Two Girls on a Lawn (mk18) c 1889,oil on canvas,21 1/8 x 25 1/4 in
Gift of Mrs Francis Ormond,1950
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,NY
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John Singer Sargent Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife (mk18) 1889
oil on canvas,26 1/8 x 32 1/8 in
Museum Collection Fund,The Brooklyn Museum,NY
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John Singer Sargent Woman with Collie (mk18) n.d.watercolor on paper,13 7/8 x 10 in
Gift of Mrs.Francis Ormond,1950
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,NY
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John Singer Sargent Village Children (mk18) 1890,oil on canvas,25 x 30 in
The Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection,Yale University Art Gallery,New Haven,CT
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John Singer Sargent Artist in His Studio (mk18) c 1903,oil on canvas,28 1/2 x 28 1/4 in
Charles Henry Hayden Fund,Museum of Fine Arts,Boston,MA
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John Singer Sargent William Merritt Chase (mk18) 1902
Oil on canvas,62 1/2 x 41 3/8 in
Gift of Pupils of William M.Chase 1905
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York NY
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John Singer Sargent Mr and Mrs Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (mk18) 1897
oil on canvas,85 1/4 x 39 3/4 in
Bequest of Edith Minturn Phelps Stokes (Mrs.I.N)1938
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,NY
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John Singer Sargent Reading (mk18) 1911,Watercolor on paper,20 x 14 in
Hayden Collection:Purchased,Charles Henry Hayden Fund,The Museum of Fine Arts,Boston MA
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John Singer Sargent A Boating Party (mk18) c 1889,oil on canvas, 34 5/8 x 36 3/8 in
Gift of Mrs Houghton P Metcalf in memory of her husband Houghton P.Metcalf Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,Providence
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John Singer Sargent Padre Sebastiano (mk18) 1904-06,oil on canvas,22 1/4 x 28 in
Rogers Fund,1910
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York NY
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John Singer Sargent The Master and His Pupils (mk18) 1914 oil on canvas,22 x 28 in
Charles Henry Hayden Fund
The Museum of Fine Arts,Boston,MA
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John Singer Sargent Gebrt Hanes (mk18) 1913 oil on canvas,33 1/2 x 26 1/2 in
By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery,London
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John Singer Sargent The Cashmere Shawl (mk18) 1911,watercolor,19 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
Charles Henry Hayden Fund,THe MUseum of Fine Arts,Boston,MA
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John Singer Sargent Repone (mk18) 1911,oil on canvas,251/8 x 30in
Gift of Curt H.Reisinger,
National Gallery of Art,Washington,DC
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John Singer Sargent Mrs Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel (mk18) 1903,oil on canvas,60 x 40 1/4 in
Gift of Mrs.Rachel Warren Barton and the Emily L Ainsley Fund,The Museum of Fine Arts,Boston,MA
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John Singer Sargent Mrs Edward D.Boit (Mary Louisa Cushing) (mk18) 1888,oil on canvas,60 1/4 x 42 in
Gift of Miss Julia Overing Boit Museum of Fine Arts,Boston,MA
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John Singer Sargent Elizabeth Allen Marquand (Mrs.Henry G.Marquand) (mk18) 1887,oil on canvas,66 1/2 x 42 1/8 in
Gift of Eleanor Marquand Delanoy (77-77)
The Art Museum,Princeton University,NJ 1990,The Trustees of Princeton University
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John Singer Sargent The Wyndham Sisters Lady Elcho,Mrs.Adeane,and Mrs.Tennanet (mk18) 1899,oil on canvas,115 x 84 1/8 in
Wolfe Fund,Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection,1927,The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York NY
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John Singer Sargent Mrs.Gardner in White (mk18) 1922,watercolor on paper,16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Boston/Art Resource,New York
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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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