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John Singer Sargent
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American painter (1856–1925)
John Singer Sargent was an American painter who lived from 1856 to 1925 and became one of the most celebrated portrait artists of his time. His technical skill and ability to capture his subjects' likenesses made him highly sought after by wealthy and prominent figures, helping establish him as a defining artistic figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1856
- Died
- 1925
- Works
- 43
Top works
- Catalogue of ten Sargents from Sargent's own collection
- Sargent at Harvard
- Catalogue of pictures and water colour drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A.
- Catalogue of paintings and sketches by John S. Sargent
- Sargent and Italy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1856
- Active to
- 1925
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
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- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
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Quotes
- “The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism—Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860—it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.”
- “Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).”
- “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to John Singer Sargent, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
John Singer Sargent (/ˈsɑːrdʒənt/; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Capri, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
Born in Florence to American parents, he was trained there and in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter. An early submission to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter in Paris but instead resulted in scandal. During the year following the scandal, Sargent departed for England, where he continued a successful career as a portrait artist.
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