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Sargent was a descendant of Epes Sargent, a colonial military leader and jurist.Before John Singer Sargent's birth, his father, FitzWilliam (b. 1820 in Gloucester, Massachusetts), was an eye surgeon at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia from 1844 to 1854.
John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. [1] During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
Synagogue is an allegorical mural by John Singer Sargent in the Boston Public Library. [1] It is part of Sargent's larger Triumph of Religion mural cycle in the library's central branch at Copley Square. Synagogue was unveiled in 1919, and it sparked immediate controversy. [2]
The Wertheimer portraits are a series of twelve portrait paintings made by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) of and for the British art dealer Asher Wertheimer (1843–1918) and his family. The series amounts to Sargent's largest private commission.
John Singer Sargent. Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd, 1999. ISBN 0-87846-473-5; Marshall, Megan. "Model Children: The story of John Singer Sargent's painting of a family of enigmatic girls", The New York Times Book Review (December 13, 2009), p. 22; Prettejohn, Elizabeth. "Interpreting Sargent". Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
The painting has been called both an example of John Singer Sargent's Impressionism [11] and also his early affinity with the Realist movement. [12] A brief shot in the 1960 movie The Alamo re-creates the scene portrayed in El Jaleo, in fulfillment of a promise to do so that actor John Wayne, who directed it, had given movie executive Spyros ...
Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent.It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.