John Singer Sargent

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John Singer Sargent was a prominent American expatriate painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his virtuoso portraiture and refined, cosmopolitan style.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American expatriate
painter
person
portrait painter
watercolorist
activeYearsEnd 1925
activeYearsStart 1870
awardReceived Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University
Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
Order of Merit (United Kingdom)
burialPlace Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England
commissionedBy Boston Public Library
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Tate Gallery (for murals and works)
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1856-01-12
dateOfDeath 1925-04-14
educatedAt Atelier of Carolus-Duran
École des Beaux-Arts
employer British War Memorials Committee
exhibitedAt Paris Salon
Royal Academy of Arts
Society of American Artists
familyName Sargent
field painting
watercolor painting
fullName John Singer Sargent
genre genre painting
landscape
murals
portrait
givenName John
influenced 20th-century portraitists
American portrait painting
influencedBy Diego Velázquez
Frans Hals
Impressionists
Édouard Manet
languageSpoken English
French
German
Italian
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf National Academy of Design
Royal Academy of Arts
movement Aestheticism
Impressionism
Realism
notableFor portrait painting
society portraits
watercolors
notableWork Boston Public Library murals
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
El Jaleo
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
Gassed
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
Portrait of Henry James
Portrait of Madame X
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Triumph of Religion murals
Wynford Dewhurst: The Picnic
parent FitzWilliam Sargent
Mary Newbold Singer Sargent
placeOfBirth Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
placeOfDeath London, England
residence Boston, Massachusetts
London, England
Paris, France
sibling Emily Sargent
studiedUnder Carolus-Duran
Léon Bonnat
style cosmopolitan elegance
refined realism
virtuoso brushwork
subjectOf retrospective exhibitions at Tate Britain
retrospective exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
workLocation Boston
London
Paris
Venice


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