Artist john singer sargent biography
Artist john singer sargent biography
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John Singer Sargent
Artist
born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925
- Born
- Florence, Italy
- Died
- London, England
- Active in
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Paris, France
- Biography
Painter.
Sargent traveled in a circle of socially prominent people and is known for his loosely painted portraits done in a style reminiscent of Edgar Degas and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Madame X caused a minor scandal at the Salon of 1884 and was rejected by Sargent's client because Sargent depicted her as vain.
He devoted his later career to impressionistic watercolor scenes.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Artist Biography
Sargent, born in Italy to American parents and educated in Germany and France, possessed a keen eye for regional social conventions.
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