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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.
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.
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Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes is an 1897 painting by John Singer Sargent.It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]The portrait depicts the New York architect and philanthropist Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867–1944) and his wife, Edith Minturn Stokes (1867–1937), whom he married in 1895, and had previously posed for Daniel Chester French's Statue of The ...
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.
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.
However, the library asserted that because the painting was the result of a contract between Sargent and citizen donors, the library could not legally take it down. [4] The library also cited the recent court case Eliot v Trinity Church, which concerned a different public religious artwork: a statue of Philips Brooks at Trinity Church ...
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 ...