John Singer Sargent - Life of an Artist

John Singer Sargent - Life of an Artist
John Singer Sargent Biography
John Singer Sargent Artworks [Realism, Impressionism]
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- Born: January 12, 1856; Florence, Italy
- Died: April 14, 1925; London, United Kingdom
- Nationality: #American
- Art Movement: #Realism #Impressionism
- Painting School: New English Art Club
- Genre: #portrait
- Field: #painting
- Influenced by: Tintoretto, Michelangelo, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough
- Influenced on: Aaron Shikler, Pino Daeni, Henry Scott Tuke, Jacques-Émile Blanche
- Teachers: Carolus-Duran, Leon Bonnat
- Art institution: Académie Julian, Paris, France, Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London, UK, National Academy Museum and School (National Academy of Design), New York City, NY, US
- Friends and Co-workers: Julian Alden Weir, Henry Tonks, Martín Rico y Ortega, Frank O'Meara, William Logsdail
- Family and Relatives: Childe Hassam
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent
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John Singer Sargent was one of the leading portraits painters of his generation, creating images of Edwardian Era high society. A prolific artist, he produced around 900 oil paintings, over 2,000 watercolors and even more sketches and preliminary studies. Born in Italy to American parents, Sargent spent his childhood traveling through Europe. He showed his artistic inclinations at a young age, and in 1874 he began his formal training at the Paris studio of Carolus-Duran. After leaving the studio in 1878, Sargent concentrated on building his craft, traveling through Europe and methodically studying works of old masters in Holland, Spain, and Venice. During his travels, he painted many genre scenes, such as Rosina, Capri (1878) and Venetian Bead Stringers (1880-1882). Sargent also experimented with Impressionist techniques at the influence of Claude Monet, whom he met at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. In Sargent’s case, the use of the Impressionist technique is noticeable in landscape paintings like Washerwomen (ca. 1880) and Landscape at Broadway (1885).

In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Sargent was building his reputation in Paris. He received positive critiques for portraits like Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts (1877) and subject paintings like El Jaleo (1882). Sargent’s career suffered a setback at the 1884 Paris Salon where he exhibited Madame X (1883-1884), the portrait of the young socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. While the painting received some praise, it was mostly ridiculed and dismissed as a distasteful display of vanity. Sargent defended his work and refused to take it down even in the face of mounting pressure from Gautreau’s mother, who blamed the portrait for ruining her daughter’s reputation. Discouraged and humiliated by the scandal, Sargent left Paris and moved to London.

The scandal of Madame X followed Sargent to England: London patrons were wary of Sargent’s “French style” and he struggled to secure commissions. However, this changed in 1887 when he exhibited the painting Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-1886), an image of two children lighting Chinese lanterns at dusk. The painting dazzled critics and audiences, and Sargent was once again in demand. He enjoyed an upscale clientele of aristocrats, wealthy businesspeople, artists, and performers from Europe and America. His international reputation reached its peak in the 1890s and early 1900s. At that time Sargent painted portraits of distinguished figures like Theodore Roosevelt, actress Dame Ellen Terry and author Henry James.

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0:00 Summary of John Singer Sargent
1:27 Childhood
4:17 Early Training
7:34 Mature Period
11:46 Late Period
14:07 The Legacy of John Singer Sargent
17:46 John Singer Sargent paintings