John Singer Sargent
![Portrait by [[James E. Purdy]], 1903](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/John_Singer_Sargent_1903.jpg)
Born in Florence to American parents, he was trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter. An early submission to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his ''Portrait of Madame X'', was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter in Paris but instead resulted in scandal. During the year following the scandal, Sargent departed for England, where he continued a successful career as a portrait artist.
From the beginning, Sargent's work is characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush, which in later years inspired admiration as well as criticism for its supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent with the grand manner of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity with Impressionism. In later life, Sargent expressed ambivalence about the restrictions of formal portrait work and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working ''en plein air''. Art historians generally ignored society artists such as Sargent until the late 20th century.
The exhibition in the 1980s of Sargent's previously hidden male nudes served to spark a reevaluation of his life and work, and its psychological complexity. In addition to the beauty, sensation and innovation of his oeuvre, his same-sex interests, unconventional friendships with women and engagement with race, gender nonconformity and emerging globalism are now viewed as socially and aesthetically progressive and radical. Provided by Wikipedia
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The work of John S. Sargent, R.A. / by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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Sargent's women. by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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John Singer Sargent, his own work. by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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John Singer Sargent watercolors / by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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John Singer Sargent's Triumph of religion at the Boston Public Library : creation and restoration / by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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John Singer Sargent : the male nudes / by Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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Sargent : painting out-of-doors / by Esten, John, 1935-
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John Singer Sargent : the sensualist / by Fairbrother, Trevor J.
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A touch of blossom : John Singer Sargent and the queer flora of fin-de-siècle art / by Syme, Alison (Alison Mairi)
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Strapless : John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X / by Davis, Deborah, 1952-
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Sargent : the masterworks / by Herdrich, Stephanie L.
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Sargent's daughters : the biography of a painting / by Hirshler, Erica E.
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John Singer Sargent : painting friends / by Gallati, Barbara Dayer
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Sargent : painting out-of-doors / by Esten, John, 1935-
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John Singer Sargent / by Ratcliff, Carter
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The watercolors of John Singer Sargent / by Little, Carl
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The story of Nedda an Italian reservist's wife / by Roberts, Lewis Niles
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John Singer Sargent : complete paintings / by Ormond, Richard
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Sargent and the sea / by Cash, Sarah
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