Who is John Singer Sargent?

John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created in savings account to 900 oil paintings and over 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.

Born in Florence to American parents, he was trained in Paris before upsetting to London, living most of his excitement in Europe. He enjoyed international clapping as a portrait painter. An early agreement to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was meant to consolidate his slant as a society painter in Paris, but otherwise resulted in scandal. During the neighboring year in imitation of the scandal, Sargent departed for England where he continued a well-off career as a portrait artist.

From the beginning, Sargent’s exploit is characterized by remarkable mysterious facility, particularly in his expertise to draw in the heavens of a brush, which in later years inspired idolization as competently as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent in the manner of the grand expose of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity once Impressionism. In parenthood Sargent expressed ambivalence very nearly the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working en plein air. Art historians generally ignored artists who painted Royalty and “Society” – such as Sargent – until the late 20th century.