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Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. When Sargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired Massachusetts gentleman, having practised medicine in Philadelphia. Sargent's home life was penetrated with refinement, and outside it were the beautiful influences of Florence, combining the charms of sky and hills with the wonders of art in the galleries and the opportunities of an intellectual and artistic society. Accordingly, when Sargent arrived in Paris, he was not only a skilful draughtsman and painter as a result of his study of the Italian masters, but he also had a refined and cultivated taste, which perhaps had an even greater influence upon his career. Later in Spain, it was chiefly upon the lessons learned from Velázquez that he found his own brilliant method. Sargent belongs to America, but is claimed by others as a citizen of the world, or a cosmopolitan. Sargent, with the exception of a few months at distant intervals, spent his life abroad. The artistic influences which affected him were those of Europe. Yet his Americanism may be detected in his extraordinary facility to absorb impressions, in the individuality he evolved, and in the subtlety and reserve of his methods – qualities that are characteristic of the best American art.
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Publish dateJul 1, 2011
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Table of contents
1Sargent Sargent
2— Henri James
3Biography
41885-6: Moves to London and there paints his first portrait of Robert
5Louis Stevenson.
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6Returns to Europe and visits battlefields in France.
7Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was an
8Man Wearing Laurels
9Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts (Portrait of Mile W.)
10although many men of his time with the
11Fishing for Oysters at Cancale
12Avegno Gautreau, the beautiful model who
13Rome, Florence, Nice, as well as holiday
141878 Oil on canvas, 22.9 x 25.4 cm Private collection
151879 Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 63.2 cm Private collection
16Robert Louis Stevenson, of whom John would
17Neapolitan Children Bathing
18almost religious aura.”
19his letters and several memoirs as observed
20Madame Edouard Pailleron
21for himself.
22Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d’Hiver
23In 1876, appropriately the first centenary
24Fumée d’ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)
25At the end of the century both the beauty
26During the same time, in England, brilliant
27flamboyant Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and
28These American artists, as well as Charles
29Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron
30with the title Oyster Gatherers of Cancale.
31Doctor Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home
32such subsequent works as Madame Edouard
33Pailleron (1879) and Doctor Samuel Jean
34Back in Paris in 1878, Carolus-Duran
35A Street in Venice
36in the artist’s remarkable life of achievement.
37to Spain and Morocco.
38in Sunlight and Luxembourg Gardens at
39The influence of that work undoubtedly
40“one of the greatest paintings of children in
41The Sulphur Match
42least
43women in the Palazzo Rezzonico, and bead
44there during a gloomy winter, in contrast to
45Two Nude Bathers Standing on a Wharf. His
46However, two decades earlier in a magazine
47Mr. and Mrs. John White Field
48Commentators would
49A Street In Venice, The Sulphur Match, El
50As in the much more famous work later, the
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