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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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Table of contents
1Introduction
2Self-Portrait, 1907
3Biography
4Man Wearing Laurels, 1874-1880
5Introduction
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6Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts (Portrait of Mile W.), 1877
7Fishing for Oysters at Cancale, 1878
8Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, 1878
9Head of Ana, Capri Girl, 1878
10Carmela Bertagna, c. 1879
11Among the Olive Trees, Capri, 1879
12Neapolitan Children Bathing, 1879
13Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight, 1879
14Madame Edouard Pailleron, 1879
15Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d’Hiver, c. 1879-1880
16Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1879
17Fumée d’ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris), 1880
18Venetian Women in the Palazzo Rezzonico, c. 1880
19Venetian Bead Stringers, c. 1880-1882
20Venetian Glass Workers, c. 1880-1882
21Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron, 1881
22Doctor Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home, 1881
23Vernon Lee, 1881
24A Street in Venice, c. 1880-1882
25Street in Venice, 1882
26A Venetian Interior, c. 1882
27Sortie de l’église (After Church) Campo San Canciano, Venice, 1882
28El Jaleo, 1882
29The Sulphur Match, 1882
30Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt), 1882
31Pressing the Grapes: Florentine Wine Cellar, 1882
32The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882
33Mr. and Mrs. John White Field, 1882
34Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast, c. 1882-1883
35Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-1884
36Edith, Lady Playfair (Edith Russell), 1884
37Auguste Rodin, 1884
38The Misses Vickers, 1884
39A Dinner Table at Night (The Glass of Claret), 1884
40Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885
41Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-1886
42Mrs. Cecil (Frances Frew) Wade, 1886
43Morning Walk, 1888
44Paul Helleu Sketching His Wife, 1889
45Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889
46Door of a Mosque, c. 1891
47Frieze of the Prophets (Detail of Study for the Boston Public Library), c. 1893
48Portrait of Asher Wertheimer, 1898
49Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, 1898
50An Interior in Venice, 1899
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