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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 Italian actress Eleonora Duse Date ca. 1893
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 58.4 x 48.3 cm (23 x 19 in)
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John Singer Sargent Duchess of Sutherland 1904(1904)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 254 x 146 cm (100 x 57.5 in)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Benjamin Kissam Date 1890(1890)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions (31 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
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John Singer Sargent Carmela Bertagna c. 1880
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 23 1/2" x 19 1/2"
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John Singer Sargent Alice Vanderbilt Shepard Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, 1888; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, acq. no. 1999.20
Date 1888(1888)
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John Singer Sargent Gondolier oil on canvas, by the American artist John Singer Sargent. 71.12 cm x 55.88 cm (28 in. x 22 in.) Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1905(1905)
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Sir Edmund Gosse Portrait of Sir Edmund Gosse, 1886. Oil on canvas 54.6 x 44.5 cm (21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) National Portrait Gallery, London
Date 1886(1886)
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John Singer Sargent The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit Oil on canvas 221.93 x 222.57 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Date 1882(1882)
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John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent Date 1903
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John Singer Sargent It's a painting of John Singer Sargent's which is in National Gallery of Scotland Date 1892
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John Singer Sargent Morning Walk Detail 1888
Oil on canvas (50.2 x 67.3 cm, full painting)
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John Singer Sargent Lady Astor Oil on canvas, 149.9 x 99 cm
Date 1909(1909)
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John Singer Sargent Self Portrait 1906(1906)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 70 x 53 cm (27.6 x 20.9 in)
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John Singer Sargent 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
Date 1904(1904)
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John Singer Sargent Thistles ca. 1885-1889
Medium Oil on canvas
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Jennie Churchill 19th century
Medium Oil
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John Singer Sargent Polly Barnard Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 26 3/4 in
Date 1889(1889)
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John Singer Sargent Italian actress Eleonora Duse 1893
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 58.4 x 48.3 cm (23 x 19 in)
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John Singer Sargent Oyster Gatherers of Cancale Français : 1877
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Français : 79.1 x 123.2 cm
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John Singer Sargent Alice Vanderbilt Shepard 1888; Oil on canvas
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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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