John Singer Sargent

... John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time, was also an historian. He did not write about his era. He recorded the wealthy and successful people of his time in paintings that say more about the late Victorian and Edwardian age than words ever could. His portraits of the rich and famous capture the spirit of the time they lived in. His paintings of the women of the era often reflect the world's changing attitudes towards them. His treatment of American sitters expresses the differences between them and his wealthy British subjects. Sargent did not just create likenesses of his subjects. The way that he posed them, the props he used, and even the people he chose to paint tell the viewer a great deal about the world that surrounded him. When he died in 1925 Sargent was considered to be a

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