John Singer(1856-1925) Italian-born American painter
whose elegant portraits provide an enduring image of
Edwardian-age society. The wealthy and privileged on both
sides of the Atlantic Ocean came to his studio in London to
be immortalized. John Singer achieved a great reputation for
his portraits, Sargent's broad, slashing brushstrokes and
brilliant palette evoke a sense of the accidental and of
capturing a particular moment. He was surprisingly
unrepetitive in his portraiture, responding to each sitter
differently, and was masterfully able to manipulate props and
painterly effects to suggest the class and sometimes the
occupation of his subjects. His best portraits capture his
sitters in a revealing, off-guard moment. Fashionable clients
flocked to his Chelsea studio and paid, on average, 1,000
guineas, or $5,000, for a full-length portrait. Moving in the
circle of the Impressionists, he came to know most of them,
In the 1880s Sargent began to paint landscapes After 1910
Sargent gave up portraiture and devoted the rest of his life
to painting murals and Alpine and Italian landscapes in
watercolour. With stenographic brilliance Sargent pursued
transparency and fluidity beyond the experiments of J.M.W.
Turner and Winslow Homer, sometimes creating works that were
prophetically or accidentally expressionistic, as in Mountain
Fire (1895). that were Impressionist in technique and
approach. At this time he visited Monet painting two
portraits of him: Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood
and Claude Monet in his Bateau-Atelier (1887. Sargent's
painted large canvases out of doors,
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