"million and is located at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art at Bentonville, Arkansas. In December 2004, ""Group with Parasols (A Siesta)"" (1905) sold for US$23.5 million, nearly double the Sotheby's estimate of $12 million. The previous highest price for a Sargent painting was US$11 million. John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the ""leading portrait painter of his generation"" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His"
"not necessarily flattering. They are equally, if not more so, celebrated for their powerful self-portraits. John Singer Sargent also spanned the change of century, but he rejected overt Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. He was the most successful portrait painter of his era, using a mostly realistic technique often effused with the brilliant use of color. He was equally apt at individual and group portraits, particularly of upper-class families. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and in Paris. Sargent is considered to be the last major exponent of the British portrait tradition beginning"
"valuable items was another way of high society representing its prestige. Art was also a way of representing taste level and someones ability to commission the right artist or chose the best piece to have installed in their homes. Portrait painters were in high demand in London. Meanwhile, the smaller corps of American artists shifted their focus from painting the great landscapes of America to making portraits of great Americans. However art historians generally ignored the society artists such as John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) until the late 20th century. Portraiture became the most common art in order for"
"as a vagary of the artist. Today ""El Jaleo"" is considered to be one of John Singer Sargent's most memorable works. El Jaleo El Jaleo is a large painting by John Singer Sargent, depicting a Spanish Gypsy dancer performing to the accompaniment of musicians. Painted in 1882, it currently hangs in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was inspired by a five-month trip Sargent made through Spain and North Africa in 1879, which also yielded a smaller oil painting, ""The Spanish Dance"" (Hispanic Society of America). Chronologically and thematically, the painting is related to a series of"
"his older brother's enthusiasm for the landscape, ""His school was all outdoors, nature in the raw….He wanted his scenes to be of nature as she grew without man's help. His trees must be as they grew out in the open and not pampered by man."" Sargent resisted modern movements, such as Cubism and abstract art, because as can be seen by his work, he was about the realism of a painting. He believed that in painting nature, a still life or from a model in portrait work, one could learn as much in one lesson as he could in a"
"Irene Sargent Irene Sargent (February 20, 1852 - September 14, 1932) was an American art historian and leading advocate of the American Arts and Crafts movement, especially through her numerous influential articles in ""The Craftsman"" magazine. Sargent was famously reticent about her personal history, and little is known about her early life apart from the fact that she was born Jesse Irene Sargent in Auburn, New York. She was the fourth daughter of Rufus Sargent, a machine designer and tool manufacturer, and Phebe Sargent. There is no record of any formal education, but she apparently traveled in Europe after her"
"1850s. There were alternative London locations like the British Institution, and as the conservatism of the Royal Academy gradually increased, despite the efforts of Lord Leighton when President, new spaces opened, notably the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, from 1877, which became the home of the Aesthetic Movement. The New English Art Club exhibited from 1885 many artists with Impressionist tendencies, initially using the Egyptian Hall, opposite the Royal Academy, which also hosted many exhibitions of foreign art. The American portrait painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), spent most of his working career in Europe and he maintained his studio in"
"Museum, described as depicting ""the Church of SS Domenico e Sisto, Rome; with a sweeping double staircase to the entrance, in the foreground a man bowing to two approaching ladies"". Italian born American painter John Singer Sargent during his extensive travels in Italy made an oil painting of the exterior staircase and balustrade of the campus's Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus in 1906. Sargent described the ensemble as ""a magnificent curved staircase and balustrade, leading to a grand façade that would reduce a millionaire to a worm"". The painting now hangs at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Sargent"
"of John Singer Sargent (1955), Gilbert Stuart (1964) and Claude Monet (1966). His career and personal life were marred by untreated bipolar disorder and a controversial later life, including a prison sentence for theft of rare documents. He died in 1995 in Washington, D.C. He is survived by five children from two marriages. 1955. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. New York. 1963. The Irish career of Gilbert Stewart. Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. VI. 1964. Gilbert Stuart: A Biography. New York 1964. Carolus-Duran and the Development of Sargent, The ART Quarterly, Number 4. 1966. Monet, A Biography. New"
"married Rhoda Barnard of Salisbury, with whom he had seven children. Sargent was elected in 1775 to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress (the ""de facto"" government of the province at the time). He was offered a position on the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature (the province's highest court) by the congress' council, where he would serve for the rest of his life. He was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780). Following the independence of the United States, he was appointed to be chief justice in 1790 by Governor John Hancock. He died in 1791 in"
"year in 1934. The Brown County artists began to dissipate around the 1940s when other trends in painting began to take over the art world. In 1930 Sargent returned to his alma mater, now named Eastern Illinois State Teacher’s College, to teach private art classes to interested students. From 1938 to 1942 he taught landscape painting at the college through extensions courses. Among his students was Ralph Wickiser, a teacher and administrator at Pratt Institute, and Alice Baber, a painter in the Color Field school of Abstract expressionism. Aside from teaching at the Eastern Illinois State Teacher’s College and working"
"dance, its sound and movement. ""El Jaleo"" is an example of Hispanism, the phenomenon of widespread fascination with Spanish culture throughout Europe and America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The painting has been called both an example of John Singer Sargent's Impressionism and also his early affinity with the Realist movement. Sargent exhibited ""El Jaleo"" at the 1882 Paris Salon, where the painting was purchased by a Boston patron, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. It was the last subject picture that Sargent exhibited at the Salon, and his greatest success there. In 1888 the painting was publicly exhibited in Boston,"
"ability, an originality in stylistic approach, or a combination of these two. Traditionally skill of execution was viewed as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for Leonardo da Vinci, art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation of skill. Rembrandt's work, now praised for its ephemeral virtues, was most admired by his contemporaries for its virtuosity. At the turn of the 20th century, the adroit performances of John Singer Sargent were alternately admired and viewed with skepticism for their manual fluency, yet at nearly the same time the artist who would"
"on his own career, he took pleasure in private tutoring for student artists. Sargent taught his students many different lessons, from how to keep pigments from stiffening when outdoors in the cold to broad principles of picture making as fundamental to good representation and composition. Sargent had a flair for landscapes, a passion for the land and nature. His roads and streams are humble, peaceful glances of a place that Sargent once knew in Coles County. Landscape art played a significant role in American art. The earliest landscape paintings were topographic illustrations and then became backgrounds to portraits. Sam discusses"
"El Jaleo El Jaleo is a large painting by John Singer Sargent, depicting a Spanish Gypsy dancer performing to the accompaniment of musicians. Painted in 1882, it currently hangs in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was inspired by a five-month trip Sargent made through Spain and North Africa in 1879, which also yielded a smaller oil painting, ""The Spanish Dance"" (Hispanic Society of America). Chronologically and thematically, the painting is related to a series of works Sargent painted during a subsequent stay in Venice; these, too, include dramatic light effects, exotic models, and restrained coloring. Impressed"
"Ben Sargent Ben Sargent (born November 26, 1948) is a retired American editorial cartoonist. He began drawing editorial cartoons for the ""Austin American-Statesman"" in 1974 and retired in 2009. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Sargent was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attended Amarillo College and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982."
"same setting. John Singer Sargent, primarily painted in 1878 Other artists Rosina Ferrara Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an artist's model from the island of Capri, who became the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. Captivated by her exotic beauty, a variety of 19th-century artists, including Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank Hyde, and George Randolph Barse, made works of art of her. Ferrara was featured in the 2003 art exhibit ""Sargent's Women"" at New York City's Adelson Galleries, as well as in the book ""Sargent's Women"" published that year. At about the age of thirty, Ferrara married Barse and"
"of nudes, which were also collected in book form as ""Nudes"", to accompany an exhibition at New York's Robert Miller Gallery in 1995. Accomplished in a relatively short period of two years, the photographs were inspired by his love of Greek antiquity and a search for beauty. Friends, acquaintances and friends of friends posed in classical, sculptural stances. In 1998 David Seidner made a series of pictures to honor the John Singer Sargent retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He photographed 18 descendants of the British and American aristocrats whose elegant portraits Sargent painted around the turn of"
"performance he attended. Edwin Abbey and Sargent later collaborated on the enormous wall paintings for the Boston Public Library, and were among the leading artists of their day. James' treatment of his friend Honore de Daumier was a welcome effort on behalf of an artist many considered little more than a political cartoonist. James found an ""impressive depth"" in Daumier's portrayal of the peculiar and the (sometimes) ugly. Many of Daumier's subjects are now remembered only in his often slashing work, but that's appropriate because all art ""prolongs...preserves...consecrates...raises from the dead."" In his essay on his protégé John Singer Sargent,"
"a custom woodworker, eventually focusing on creating unique picture frames influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced “highly prized, hand-carved frames for the greatest artists of his day, including John Singer Sargent. He traveled to Italy in 1911, again with his brother, visiting Florence, Venice, Pisa, and Siena. On his return to Boston, he began to produce paintings in addition to his frames; he was then almost fifty years old. His first painting, ""Rising Sun"", was on a carved wood and gesso panel. In 1915 he exhibited his paintings at the Montross Gallery in New York and in"
"Chicago, where he was inspired to work with large canvases. Research has found that Sargent painted a few murals around the city of Chicago, including genre scenes of the George Rogers Clark crossing into Illinois at the John M. Smyth school, a second at the Crippled Children’s House of a scene from Robin Hood, and the third at Sherman Park Field House of Captain John Smith landing at Jamestown with colonists. After coming back to Hutton Township from Chicago, he began to travel for inspiration and find new galleries for his artwork. In 1920, he met Adolph Shulz in Brown"
"newly organized Boston Artists' Association. On April 2, 1807, Sargent married Hannah Welles (1779–1841), the daughter of Samuel and Isabella (née Pratt) Welles, of Boston. Together, they had two daughters who died in infancy and two sons: Sargent died on February 21, 1845. Henry Sargent Henry Sargent (baptized November 25, 1770 – February 21, 1845), American painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was one of seven children born to Daniel Sargent Sr. and Mary (née Turner) Sargent (1744–1813). He was the brother of author Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786–1867), and Daniel Sargent (1764–1842) merchant and a cousin"
"a member of Hasty Pudding Club and one of the co-founders of ""The Harvard Lampoon"". Upon graduating, he convinced his parents to let him study art. He began at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied with Gustave Boulanger, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and the history painter, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. Upon completing his work there, he found a position in the studios of Carolus-Duran. It was there he first met John Singer Sargent, who would not only become a close friend, but also have a significant influence on his style. In 1878, his parents moved to Europe; spending some time in Rome,"
"at Stamford. At the age of 16 he earned his diploma as Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and at 18 he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music by the University of Durham. Sargent worked first as an organist at St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, from 1914 to 1924, except for eight months in 1918 when he served as a private in the Durham Light Infantry during the First World War. He was chosen for the organist post over more than 150 other applicants. At the same time, he worked on many musical projects in Leicester,"
"age of 80. She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Her papers are held by Syracuse University. Irene Sargent Irene Sargent (February 20, 1852 - September 14, 1932) was an American art historian and leading advocate of the American Arts and Crafts movement, especially through her numerous influential articles in ""The Craftsman"" magazine. Sargent was famously reticent about her personal history, and little is known about her early life apart from the fact that she was born Jesse Irene Sargent in Auburn, New York. She was the fourth daughter of Rufus Sargent, a machine designer and tool manufacturer, and Phebe Sargent."
"Charles Sprague Sargent Charles Sprague Sargent (April 24, 1841 – March 22, 1927) was an American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified. Sargent was the second son of Henrietta (Gray) and Ignatius Sargent, a Boston merchant and banker who grew wealthy on railroad investments. He grew up on his father's 130-acre (53-ha) estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, where he graduated"
"Raymond Sargent Raymond Sargent (2 October 1952 – 9 March 2008) was a British actor, musician and dramatist. Along with his sister Jean, he was born in the town of Poole, Dorset to a mother from Lancashire and Poole father. Following several years of study as an electro-mechanic instrument mechanic, then an instrument maker Raymond discovered a passion for drama when his future wife Julia Banwell introduced him to amateur dramatics. He then studied acting professionally at Mountview Theatre School in London. He toured for two years from 1994–1996 with the highly successful nationally touring musical production of The Buddy"
"approach that relied on the proper placement of tones of paint. This approach also permitted spontaneous flourishes of color not bound to an under-drawing. It was markedly different from the traditional atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme, where Americans Thomas Eakins and Julian Alden Weir had studied. Sargent was the star student in short order. Weir met Sargent in 1874 and noted that Sargent was ""one of the most talented fellows I have ever come across; his drawings are like the old masters, and his color is equally fine."" Sargent's excellent command of French and his superior talent made him both popular"
"his one of his travels in the middle east. The image, done in watercolor and gouache on woven white paper, depicts a veiled Muslim woman wearing a white niqāb. According to an inscription left by Sargent on the painting, the work is incomplete. Arab Woman (watercolor) Arab Woman is a watercolor painting by John Singer Sargent. Completed in either the late 19th or early 20th century, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prominent American painter John Singer Sargent took two notable trips to the middle east during his lifetime; the first trip was"
"of Art Critics (AICA) and the catalogue was a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award, College Art Association of America. ""John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family"" (2000) reunited for the first time in more than sixty years the twelve formal portraits of the Wertheimer family painted by Sargent. This exhibition told the story of a friendship between artist and patron and offered a unique glimpse into the world of a privileged family of English Jews. In 2001 the exhibit ""Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art"" contextualized controversial works by contemporary artists who employed images of Nazi villains"
"1889 and Grand Officer in 1900. In 1889 and 1900 he served on the juries at the Expositions Universelles. In 1890, he was one of the co-founders of the second Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1904. The following year, he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome, a position he held until 1913. He was a frequent visitor to the resort at Fréjus, where he owned a small villa. Following his death, the resort named a plaza and a beach after him. They include John Singer Sargent,"
"held educational workshops on adapting written material for the stage, original script writing, theatre skills, public address and poetry writing. He also read poetry for BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please. Raymond Sargent Raymond Sargent (2 October 1952 – 9 March 2008) was a British actor, musician and dramatist. Along with his sister Jean, he was born in the town of Poole, Dorset to a mother from Lancashire and Poole father. Following several years of study as an electro-mechanic instrument mechanic, then an instrument maker Raymond discovered a passion for drama when his future wife Julia Banwell introduced him to amateur"
"International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, and the Secession Society, Munich; and, besides receiving a number of medals, his decorations include the Legion of Honor, France; the order of the Red Eagle, Germany; and knight of the Order of St Michael, Bavaria. In 1889, he and John Singer Sargent became the first American painters to win a Grand Prize at the Paris Universal Exposition. His paintings from the World Columbian Exposition (1893) held in Chicago are now in the Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1903, he married Corinne Mackall, a Baltimore painter born"