John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. 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, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.Born in Florence to American parents, he was trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter. An early submission to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter in Paris, but instead resulted in scandal. During the next year following the scandal, Sargent departed for England where he continued a successful career as a portrait artist.From the beginning, Sargent’s work is characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly

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Study of Two Bedouins (1905)

John Singer Sargent

Ramon Subercaseaux (c.1880)

John Singer Sargent

Peter A. B. Widener (1902)

John Singer Sargent

Nonchaloir (Repose) (1911)

John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Charlotte Cram (1900)

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Miss Mathilde Townsend (1907)

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Miss Beatrice Townsend (1882)

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Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain) (1902)

John Singer Sargent

Marie Buloz Pailleron (Madame Édouard Pailleron) (1879)

John Singer Sargent

Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White) (1883)

John Singer Sargent

Fumée d’ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris) (1880)

John Singer Sargent

Eleanora O’Donnell Iselin (Mrs. Adrian Iselin) (1888)

John Singer Sargent

An Artist at His Easel (1914)

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Dorothy (1900)

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A Street In Venice (c. 1880–82)

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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)

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Ena and Betty, daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer (1901)

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Madame Paul Poirson (1885)

John Singer Sargent

Mrs. Hugh Smith (1904)

John Singer Sargent

Le Verre De Porto (A Dinner Table At Night)

John Singer Sargent

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