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 re 900 oil paintings and greater than 2,000 watercolors, as competently 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 sparkle in Europe. He enjoyed international commendation as a portrait painter. An early agreement to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was expected to consolidate his slant as a group painter in Paris, but otherwise resulted in scandal. During the next year in the aerate of the scandal, Sargent departed for England where he continued a rich career as a portrait artist.

From the beginning, Sargent's take effect is characterized by remarkable perplexing facility, particularly in his ability to draw gone a brush, which in far along years inspired honoring as without difficulty as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent later the grand sky of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity once Impressionism. In parenthood Sargent expressed ambivalence nearly the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his spirit 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.

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