John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

American Painter, 1856 - 1925

Corfu: Lights and Shadows

Corfu: Lights and Shadows

by John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was one of the great American painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men.

Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him.

Corfu: The Terrace

Corfu: The Terrace

by John Singer Sargent

Born an American, but raised in Europe, Sargent attended art schools in Paris. Precociously gifted, he soon assimilated lessons from the old masters, the contemporary Impressionists and the Spanish painters Velázquez and Francisco De Goya, producing masterful paintings while still in his twenties.

While most of the Impressionists dismissed Sargent's art, he developed a fond relationship with Claude Monet.

At the 1884 Paris Salon, however, his portrait of the 23-year-old American Virginie Gautreau, shown with bare shoulders, white bosom and haughty manner, scandalized the Paris establishment. While the work was in progress, Sargent told a friend that he was "struggling with the unpaintable beauty and hopeless laziness of Madame G." The picture, which became known as Madame X, crippled Sargent's hopes of establishing himself as a portrait painter in Paris.

Two years later, in 1886, he moved to London, and in just a few years became the most admired and sought-after portrait painter in Britain and the United States. But Sargent was much more than a portrait painter. He was also a prolific landscape and figure artist, producing more than 1,000 oils and watercolors.

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