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SARGENT, JOHN SINGER (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 219 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARGENT, See also:JOHN See also:SINGER (1856– ) , See also:American artist, son of a distinguished See also:Boston physician, was See also:born at See also:Florence, See also:Italy, on the 12th of See also:January 1856. He was educated in Italy and See also:Germany, and in 1874 entered the atelier of Carolus-See also:Duran in See also:Paris. He received an " See also:honourable mention " in the See also:Salon of 1878 for his " En route pour la peche," and in 1881 a second class See also:medal for his " Portrait of a See also:Young See also:Lady " (made famous by See also:Henry See also:James's appreciation). In 1886 his "See also:Carnation, See also:Lily, Lily, See also:Rose," exhibited at the Royal See also:Academy, was bought for the See also:Chantrey See also:Bequest. He rapidly became known in See also:London as a brilliant portrait painter, and See also:year by year his Academy portraits were the leading features of its exhibitions. Though of the See also:French school, and American by See also:birth, it is as a See also:British artist that he won fame by his See also:vogue as the most sought-after portrait painter of the See also:day, his sitters including the men and See also:women of greatest distinction in the See also:literary, See also:artistic and social See also:life of See also:Europe and See also:America. While best known, and consequently busily employed, as a portrait painter, he had at the same See also:time a disposition towards other, and especially decorative See also:work; his paintings of See also:Brittany, See also:Venice and Eastern scenes are less known, but his labour of love, the ornate decorations for the Boston public library (completed in 1903), " The See also:Pageant of See also:Religion," shows the other See also:side of his See also:genius. Among his pictures in public galleries not already mentioned are " El Jaleo " (exhibited 1882), in the Boston See also:Art Museum; " La Carmencita," in the Luxembourg; " See also:Coventry See also:Patmore," in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery, London; and " Henry See also:Marquand " (1887), in the See also:Metropolitan Museum, New See also:York. He was elected an A.R.A. in 1894, and R.A. in 1897; he was the recipient of various medals of See also:honour, and was made a member of the See also:chief artistic See also:societies of Europe and America. 1 Adapted as an See also:opera for the See also:music of See also:Puccini (See also:Rome, 14th See also:Jan. 1900).

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