John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents.
Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.
Sargent studied with Carolus-Duran, whose influence would be pivotal, from 1874-1878. Carolus-Duran's atelier was progressive, dispensing with the traditional academic approach which required careful drawing and underpainting, in favor of the alla prima method of working directly on the canvas with a loaded brush, derived from Diego Velázquez. It was an approach which relied on the proper placement of tones of paint.
-small.jpg "Mrs. Ernest G. Raphael (Florence Cecilia Sassoon) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. Graham Moore Robertson (Marion Greatorex) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. John Joseph Townsend (Catherine Rebecca... - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. Charles Thursby (Alice Brisbane) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. Ernest Hill (Constance Malanie Wynne-Roberts) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Portrait of Two Children (or The Forbes Brothers) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Madame Edouard Pailleron (study) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hammond (Esther Fiske Hammond) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. John Joseph Townsend (Catherine Rebecca Bronson) - John Singer Sargent")
-small.jpg "Mrs. Charles Huntington (Jane Hudson Sparkes) - John Singer Sargent")
