John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856-1925) · United States · Artists · Died at 69 · also Serbia
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fanny Watts, Sargent's childhood friend. The first painting at Paris Salon, 1877, Philadelphia Museum of Art
An Out-of-Doors Study, 1889, depicting Paul César Helleu sketching with his wife Alice Guérin. The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Fishing for Oysters at Cancale (a.k.a. En route pour la pêche or Setting Out to Fish), 1878, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
El Jaleo (Spanish Dancer), 1882, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Venetian onion seller, 1880-1882, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.
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John Singer Sargent 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.
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