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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.
Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. [1] It is a study in opposition.
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.
The relationship between Sargent and the Wertheimer family is the subject of a book by American biographer Jean Strouse, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [2]
In April 1903, Fiske Warren commissioned the famous American portraitist John Singer Sargent to paint Gretchen and their daughter. [ citation needed ] The sitting was done in Fenway Court, [ 1 ] then the home of Boston philanthropist and American art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner , whose immense collection would become the Isabella Stewart ...
The painting is among the first of Sargent's series of images of glamorous English women that culminated in The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant of 1899. [1] Conservators at the Metropolitan note, "Sargent’s unabashedly modern portrayal of the daring and stylish Mrs. Hammersley is a superb demonstration of the artist ...
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.