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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Major influences included John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, and Jan Vermeer. Key figures in the Boston school were Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, and William McGregor Paxton, all of whom trained in Paris at the Académie Julian and later taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Their influence can still be seen in the work of ...
The school was founded in 1876 under the name School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA). [2] From 1876 to 1909, the school was housed in the basement of the original Museum building in Copley Square. When the Museum moved to Huntington Avenue in 1909, the School moved into a separate, temporary structure to the west of the main building.
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.
After Mrs. Hammersley's death in 1902, her husband kept the painting until 1923, when financial troubles compelled him to sell the work. At the suggestion of Sargent, it was purchased by Charles Deering (1852–1927), an American whose portrait Sargent had painted in Newport, Rhode Island in 1876, and who collected Sargent's works.