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1856 Florence, Italy - 1925 London, England. Known for: Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting.
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less academically oriented atelier of Carolus Duran, who had major impact on Sargent's style. Duran was an adventurous portrait painter who blended realism... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Classical Realist
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Giverny, France
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Venice, Italy
Art Association
- •Copley Society of Boston-
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Society of Mural Painters
- •Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
- •Charles Carolus-Duran Atelier
- •Leon Bonnat, Bonnat Atelier, Paris
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •Grand Central School of Art, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Carol Beck Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- •Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
- •Gerald Peters Collection
- •Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
- •John J. McDonough Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
- •Preston Morton Collection
- •Rita and Daniel Fraad Collection
- •Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •Figure Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Official U. S. President Portrait Painter
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Copley Society of Boston
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Detroit Institute of Art
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •Royal Academy of the Arts, England
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts