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John Singer Sargent (/ ˈ s ɑːr dʒ ən t /; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) [1] was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.
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 ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants ) [ 1 ] is a painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent . The painting depicts four young girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, in their family's Paris apartment.
The Breakfast Room by Edmund C. Tarbell, ca. 1902. The Boston school was a group of Boston-based painters active in the first three decades of the twentieth century.Often classified as American Impressionists, they had their own regional style, combining the painterliness of Impressionism with a more conservative approach to figure painting and a marked respect for the traditions of Western ...
John Boit is the grandfather of Edward Darley Boit Jr., whose four daughters were depicted in their Paris apartment in John Singer Sargent's well-known work The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. This piece is displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [28] [29] Boit's logbooks are archived by the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston. [30]
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.
Portrait of Arthur Balfour is a 1908 portrait painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent of the British politician and former prime minister Arthur Balfour. [1] Balfour has succeeded his uncle Lord Salisbury as premier, his close connection to him earlier reportedly giving rise to the phrase "Bob's your uncle". [2]
One of the John Singer Sargent paintings, Dans les Oliviers à Capri (Among the Olive Trees, Capri), was shown at the Paris salon in 1879. [6] [5] Another version of the painting, A Capriote, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was submitted to the Society of American Artists in New York in March 1879 for its annual exhibition. The museum ...