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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 Lisa Colt Curtis 1898(1898)
Oil on canvas
219.3 ?? 104.8 cm (86.3 ?? 41.3 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Almina Daughter of Asher Wertheimer Date 1908(1908)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 134 ?? 101 cm (52.8 ?? 39.8 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of the 9th Duke of Marlborough Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 332.7 ?? 238.8 cm (131 ?? 94 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Madame X Date 1883?C84
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 208.6 ?? 109.9 cm (82.1 ?? 43.3 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Two Children 1887
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Millicent Leveson-Gower Date 1904(1904)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 254 ?? 146 cm (100 ?? 57.5 in)
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John Singer Sargent Sargent Street in Venice oil on wood painting
1882(1882)
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John Singer Sargent Carmela Bertagna by John Singer Sargent 1879. Oil on canvas 59.69 x 49.53 cm (23.5 x 19.5 in.) . Columbus Museum of Art.
Date 1879(1879)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Millicent Leveson-Gower Duchess of Sutherland 1904(1904)
Oil on canvas
254 x 146 cm (100 x 57.5 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes 1897(1897)
Oil on canvas
214 x 101 cm (84.3 x 39.8 in)
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John Singer Sargent Sir Frank Swettenham Sir Frank Swettenham, 1904, by John Singer Sargent, Oil on canvas, 258 x 142.5 cm (101.57 x 56.10"), National Museum in Singapore.
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John Singer Sargent 1st Earl of Balfour 1908(1908)
Medium Oil on canvas
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John Singer Sargent Morning Walk Morning Walk (detail) 1888
Oil on canvas (50.2 x 67.3 cm, full painting) Private collection
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John Singer Sargent Lady Astor Lady Astor (i.e. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879 - 1964)), Oil on canvas, 149.9 x 99 cm
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of William Merritt Chase 1902(1902)
Medium Oil on canvas
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Millicent Leveson-Gower 1904(1904)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 254 x 146 cm (100 x 57.5 in)
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John Singer Sargent WLA lacma John Singer Sargent Portrait of Mrs Edward L Davis and Her Son WLA lacma John Singer Sargent Portrait of Mrs Edward L Davis and Her Son
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis 1898(1898)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 219.3 x 104.8 cm (86.3 x 41.3 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Two Children 1887(1887)
Medium Oil
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John Singer Sargent Venice oil on wood painting
Date 1882(1882)
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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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