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 going on for 900 oil paintings and exceeding 2,000 watercolors, as without difficulty 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 touching to London, living most of his vivaciousness in Europe. He enjoyed international praise as a portrait painter. An early compliance to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was designed to consolidate his viewpoint as a help painter in Paris, but on the other hand resulted in scandal. During the neighboring year in the declare of the scandal, Sargent departed for England where he continued a wealthy career as a portrait artist.

From the beginning, Sargent's deed is characterized by remarkable profound facility, particularly in his attainment to draw in the same way as a brush, which in well ahead years inspired esteem as competently as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent subsequently the grand reveal of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity as soon as Impressionism. In old age Sargent expressed ambivalence virtually the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his liveliness 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.