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John Singer Sargent-Biography

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and
reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry
and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him.

Raised in Europe by an American expatriate family, Sargent attended art schools in Paris. Precociously gifted, he
soon assimilated lessons from the old masters, the contemporary Impressionists and the Spanish painters Velázquez and
Goya, producing a spectacular array ofexciting and masterful paintings while only in his 20s. At the 1884 Paris Salon,
however, his portrait of the 23-year-old American Virginie Gautreau, shown with bare shoulders, overflowing bosom and
haughty manner, scandalized the Paris establishment. The picture, which became known as Madame X, crippled Sargent's
hopes of establishing himself as a portrait painter in Paris. In 1886 he moved to London, and in just a few years became the
most admired and sought-after portrait painter in Britain and the United States. Sargent was much more than a portrait
painter. He was also a prolific landscape and figure artist, producing more than 1,000 dazzling oils and watercolors.