John Singer Sargent was an American painter. A pupil of Carolus-Duran and Léon
Bonnat, he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was a friend or close acquaintance of
great artists of the time, such as Claude Monet, Paul
Helleu, Albert Besnard, Gabriel Fauré or Edmund Gosse. Sargent is particularly known for his skill
in portraits, characterized by a sophisticated style,
visual virtuosity and a certain theatrical audacity. He was commissioned to paint portraits of the
most famous, wealthy or powerful men and women in Europe and the United States, such as those of
academician Édouard Pailleron and his wife, Auguste Rodin, John D. Rockefeller, Robert Louis
Stevenson, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. During his career, he created
approximately 900 canvases and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and
drawings. His work documents his travels around the world, from Venice to Tyrol, from Corfu to the
Middle East, or from Montana to Florida. Active in France. England. Painter of figure compositions,
religious compositions, genre scenes, figures, portraits, interiors, landscapes, seascapes, mural painter, gouache painter,
watercolorist, draftsman, impressionist.
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