John Singer Sargent (12 ianuarie 1856 – 14 aprilie 1925), pictor american

John Singer Sargent – Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

John Singer Sargent – Garden – Study of the Vickers Children

John Singer Sargent – Emily Sargent

John Singer Sargent – A Backwater, Calcot Mill near Reading

John Singer Sargent – A Backwater at Wargrave

John Singer Sargent – St. Martin’s Summer

John Singer Sargent – Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife

John Singer Sargent – The Sketchers

John Singer Sargent – The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy

John Singer Sargent – Violet Fishing

John Singer Sargent – Morning Walk

John Singer Sargent – By the River (also known as Femme en Barque)

John Singer Sargent – Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows

John Singer Sargent – The Artist Sketching

John Singer Sargent – Villa Torlonia, Fountain

John Singer Sargent – Villa Torlonia Fountain

John Singer Sargent – Villa de Marlia, A Fountain

John Singer Sargent – In the Garden, Corfu

John Singer Sargent – Frederick Law Olmsted

John Singer Sargent – Santa Maria della Salute

John Singer Sargent – Gondoliers’s Siesta

John Singer Sargent – Festa della Regatta

John Singer Sargent – A Venetian Interior

John Singer Sargent – In the Luxembourg Gardens.

John Singer Sargent – A Garden in Corfu

John Singer Sargent – Oranges at Corfu

John Singer Sargent – Cypress Trees at San Vigilio

John Singer Sargent – Girls Gathering Blossoms, Valdemosa, Majorca

John Singer Sargent – Girl Fishing

John Singer Sargent – Street in Venice

John Singer Sargent – Landscape with Rose Trellis

John Singer Sargent – Graveyard in the Tyrol

John Singer Sargent – Millet’s Garden

John Singer Sargent – The Olive Grove

John Singer Sargent – Glacier Streams

John Singer Sargent – Moraine

John Singer Sargent – Trout Stream in the Tyrol

John Singer Sargent – Poppies

John Singer Sargent (12 ianuarie1856 – 14 aprilie 1925) a fost un pictor american si un portretist influent al acelor vremuri.In toata perioada carierei sale a creat peste 900 picturi in ulei si mai mult de  2000 acuarele, precum si nenumarate schite si desene in carbune. Tatal lui Sargent a fost chirurg oftalmolog la Wills Eye Hospital din Philadelphia. Dupa moartea surorii sale mai mari la varsta de doi ani, mama lui, Mary (née Singer) a suferit o depresie majora, iar sotii au decis sa plece in strainatate pentru recuperare.Au ramas pentru toata viata niste emigranti nomazi.Parintii lui Sargent se mutau in mod regulat dupa anotimpuri, cand in statiunile de la munte, cand in cele de la mare din Franta, Germania, Italia si Elvetia. In timp ce  Mary era insarcinata, s-a intamplat sa fie obligati sa se opreasca in Florenta, Italia, din cauza unei epidemii de holera, astfel ca Sargent s-a nascut acolo in 1856. Un an mai tarziu s-a nascut sora lui, Mary. Dupa nasterea ei, FitzWilliam a demisionat fara tragere de inima din postul lui din Philadelphia si la rugamintile sotiei sale a ramas in strainatate. Au trait modest si izolati cu copiii lor care evitau societatea si alti americani, exceptie facand prietenii din lumea artelor.S-au mai nascut inca patru copii dintre care doar doi au trait.

Cand avea treisprezece ani, mama lui scria ca John “face schite dragute si are un ochi ager si corect. Daca ne-am permite sa-i platim lectii de desen, curand va ajunge un mic artist.” Atunci a luat cateva lectii de la pictorul peisagist german,  Carl Welsch.Desi educatia lui era departe de a fi completa, Sargent a fost crescut pentru a deveni un tanar cult si cosmopolit, perfectionat in arta, muzica si literatura.Vorbea fluent in franceza, italiana si germana.La  sapresprezece ani Sargent era descris ca “hotarat, curios, determinat si puternic” (dupa mama lui) destul de timid, generos si modest (dupa tatal lui). Era bine-familiarizat cu multi dintre marii maestri, dupa cum nota in 1874, “Am invatat in Venetia sa-l admir foarte mult pe Tintoretto si sa-l consider al doilea doar dupa Michelangelo si Titian.”

John Singer Sargent (12 ianuarie 1856 – 14 aprilie 1925), pictor american

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Jean Béraud (12 ianuarie 1849 – 4 octombrie 1935), pictor francez.

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