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John Singer SargentPortrait painter extraordinaire

John Singer Sargent was an Italian artist born on January 12, 1856. Singer Sargent contributed to the Impressionist, Early Modernist, and Realist movements, worked in England, the United States, France, and died on April 14, 1925. Get notified when John Singer Sargent's biography is complete:

Portrait of a Man

Bay of Uri, Brunnen

Boy on Water Buffalo

Madame X

Two Girls on a Lawn

The Wyndham Sisters

Treetops Against Sky

Berthe Morisot

The soul of Impressionism

Mary Cassatt

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Edgar Degas

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

Umberto Boccioni

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

Piet Mondrian

There is no God, only Truth

Henri Matisse

100% artist

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Nudes teach you everything you need to know (to paint landscapes)

Édouard Manet

A rebellious painter shocks the French Salon and courts his brothers wife

José Tapiro y Baro

Painting in the shadow of your best friend

Capturing details from 2000 miles away

The 'new woman' in painting

Cecilia Beaux John Singer Sargent

The man who fell in love with a demon

A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

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