Monday, December 10, 2018

Artist of the day, December 10: John Singer Sargent, American painter

John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) was born in Florence, Italy. He earned early acclaim for his promise as a portraitist, although he drew harsh reviews for his exhibition of Madame X at the Paris Salon of 1884. He reclaimed a favorable reputation by the end of the decade, and by the early 20th century he was devoting more time to war-themed paintings, landscapes and watercolors. Sargent died in 1925 in London, England.

Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, 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, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

His parents were American, but he was trained in Paris prior to moving to London. Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, although not without controversy and some critical reservation; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his "Portrait of Madame X", was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead. From the beginning his work was characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush, which in later years inspired admiration as well as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent with the grand manner of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity with Impressionism. In later life Sargent expressed ambivalence about the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working en plein air. He lived most of his life in Europe. Art historians generally ignored the society artists such as Sargent until the late 20th century.

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Mr John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent studio (1885)

1870, Schreckhorn, Eismeer

1877, Fanny Watts

1877-78, Woman Carrying Basket, for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale"

1878, A Capriote

1878, Boat in the Waters off Capri

1878, Capri Girl on a Rooftop

1878, Head Of Ana - Capri Girl

1878, Staircase in Capri

1878, Two Boys on a Beach with Boats

1878-79, Landscape with Two Children

1878-79, Study of Three Figures

1878-80, Head of a Young Woman (aka Native Woman)

1878-80, Staircase

1879, Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes

1879, Carolus Duran

1879, In the Luxembourg Gardens

1882, Lady with the Rose

1882, Madame Paul Escudier

1882, Street in Venice

1882, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

1883, Mrs Henry White

1884,  Garden Study of the Vickers Children

1884, Le verre de porto

1884, The Misses Vickers

1885, Arsène Vigeant

1885, Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose

1885, Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood

1885, Madame Paul Poirson

1885, Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field

1885, The Candelabrum ( Lady with Cancelabra ou The Cigarette)

1886, Mrs Cecil Wade

1888, Morning Walk

1889, Paul César Helleu sketching with his wife Alice Guérin

1890, Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile

1890-1910, Man Standing, Hands on Head

1892, Mrs. Hugh Hammersley

1893 Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

1896, Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children

1897, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes

1899, Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears

1899, The Wyndham Sisters Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant

1900, Man with Red Drapery

1902, Mrs Hugh Hammersley

1902, On His Holidays, Norway

1903, Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel

1903, Theodore Roosevelt

1904, Base of a Palace

1904, Gondoliers' Siesta

1905, Frederick Law Olmsted

1907,  The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, taly

1907, In a Medici Villa

1907, Man Seated by a Stream

1908 Almina Wertheimer's exotic beauty

1908, Cora Countess of Strafford

1909, Nancy Viscountess Astor

1910,  The Garden Wall

1910, Villa di Marlia, Lucca

1911, Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara

1912, Mountain Stream

1913, Venetian Canal

1914, George Nathaniel Curzon

1917,  John D. Rockefeller

1917, Muddy Alligators

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