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 | Under The Willows (1) 1888 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Under the Willows 1887 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Under the Rialto Bridge 1909 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | 
Photo's and history of Rialto Bridge
Sargent's
painting, of course, is under the bridge, and his interest, besides the nice
composition, is the play of light on the water and how the shadow of the bridge
effects that.
He revisits
this subject a number of times.
Other Rialto Paintings
The Rialto,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Tyrolese Interior 1914 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Note:
Image from
e-bay poster sale, no date. CMM dates it as 1914
Bibliography
Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1975.
Burke,
Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864,"
New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Tyrolese Crucifix 1914 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two-sided drawing after Jacopo Tintorettolot 1874 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: ewolfs.com
Adhered to
the grey paper is a small handwritten note, in ink, bearing
the following inscription:
"Sketch
by John S. Sargent, illustrating figures from the
Worship of the Golden Calf, by Tintoretto in Venice: made in Paris in 1874 -
Carroll Beckwith."
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 | Two Women in a Cafe 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows 1887 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Studies of Female Figure 1929.290 1919? |
Female Nude 1929.300
Notes:
Watermark:
MICHALLET/ (FRANCE)
The
curatorial file notes this drawing was made in Sargent's London studio. Related
to Fogg drawing 1929.300
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 | Two Studies of Boreas (North Wind) 1922-1924 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Studies of a Seated Male Nude Bending at the Waist 1890 - 1895 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Studies of a Reclining Draped Figure c. 1895 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Studies of a Man; Demon Pulling a Man, for Judgment, Boston Public Library 1895-1916 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Miriam
Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John
Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums
Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1999-2000, verso repr. p. 32
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 | Two Seated Arabs, Palestine c. 1890-1906 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two of the Hesperides (2) 1921-1925 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two of the Hesperides 1921-25 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Men in Biblical Costume c. 1895 |
Notes:
Exhibitions
Sargent in
the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art
Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/05/1999
Bibliography
Trevor
Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT,
2000), repr. as Folio 15, following p. 180
Trevor
Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
 | Two Male Figure Studies c. 1890 - 1915 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent:
the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT, 2000), repr.
as Folio 15, following p. 180
Trevor Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine,
vol. LVI, no. 4, December 1981, pp. 70-79
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 | Two Heads from the Banquet of the Officers (after Frans Hals) 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Frans Hals
Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard in Haarlem 1627
Notes:
Agnew's
Gallery
43 Old Bond
Street
London, England W1X 4BA
Phone:
0207-629 6176
Fax:
0207-629 4359
Email:
agnews@agnewsgallery.co.uk
Was asking
$225,000
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 | Two heads for Boston mural - The Prophet (study) Undated Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury 1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
See as it hung in the Met
2003
Note:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | Two Girls on a Lawn c. 1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two GIrls in White Dresses c. 1909-1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Girls In a Punt 1889 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Girls Fishing 1912 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH |
A painting
of Sargent's two nieces: Rose-Marie and Reine Ormond, during their trip to the
French Alps in 1912 when, according to the Cincinnati Art Museum, they all were
staying in the village of Abriès. The two girls are perched on the side
of an eddy from the cold snow-melt of a mountain stream. They sit crouched,
partly on rocks, in the quiet... | GA | igrkio |
 | Two Architectural Studies c. 1891 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Two Arab Women c. 1905 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Truck Convoy 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Trout Stream in the Tyrol 1914 Palace of the Legion of Honor San Fransisco, CA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Treetops against Sky c. 1909-1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Tower at Turin 1906 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Photo Turin Cathedral
Thumbnail only
This is the
same place where the "Shroud of Turin" (Jesus) is located.
Cornice of the
Tower, Turin Cathedral
Brown ink, blue
wash over graphite
Cornice of the
Tower, Turin Cathedral (2)
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 | Torsos of Two Male Nudes 1919? Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT |
Notes:
A special
thanks to Dale for sending me this image.
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | Torre Galli, Wine Bags 1910 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Tommies Bathing (2) 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Tommies Bathing 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Tiepolo Ceiling, Milan c. 1898-1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Three Oxen 1910 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Thou Shalt Not Steal 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
Study for Thou Shalt Not Steal
1918
National Portrait Gallery, London
Pencil
25.4 x 17.8 cm (10 x 7
in.)
(Image is full size)
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | Thomar, Portugal probably 1903 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Thistles (1) 1885 / 89 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | GA | igrkio | |
 | Thistles c. 1883-1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Thistle ca.1870-72 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Theresa ('Nellie') Marchioness of Londonderry 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: 26 July 2004
I recently
purchased a copy of an old book by H. Montgomery Hyde entitled Londonderry
House and its Pictures (Cresset Press Ltd., London, 1937). On page 60 of this
book it gives an entry for each of three works that were then in the possession
of the family of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant 1899 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
The sisters
are Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, all daughter of the Honorable
Percy Wyndham. The painting was done in their London home on Belgrave Square.
Sargent has arranged the women so that their mother, Madeline, is looking down
upon them from the full portrait by George Frederick Watt.
Lady Elcho
is the one behind. She is Mary... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Winds 1922-25 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The White House 1879 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sale
Sold at
Christies, New York, Dec 01, 2005; Sale Number 1578, Lot 47; $78,000 USD (was
estimate 70,000 - 100,000 USD)
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 | The Viscountess of Poilloue of Saint-Perier (1850-1897) 1883 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France |
Exhibitions
La peinture
américaine dans les collections du Musée du Louvre,
Blérancourt, Musée national de la coopération
franco-américaine, 14 mars - 30 septembre 1984;
J. S.
Sargent, Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1963, n°6.
Bibliography
J. S.
Sargent, Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1963, cat., n°6, repr.
pl.... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Virgin 1897 or 1901 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Unveiling of Truth 1922-25 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Todd Milligan of Oakville, ON, Canada, a friend of the JSS Gallery,
for his help with research on this work of art.
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 | The University, Genoa 1908 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Sulphur Match 1882 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Steps of the Church of S. S. Domenico e Siste in Rome 1906 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Standard Bearer (after Frans Hals) 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
This is a
copy of the figure on the far right of Frans Hals’ Banquet of the
Officers of St George Civic Guard, (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem).
Frans Hals
Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard in Haarlem 1627
Notes:
Literature
Christie’s
London, Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings of the Late John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Sphinx and Chimaera 1921 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Lee Sandstead of New York, for being a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
taking this picture on his trip and sharing this with us.
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 | The Sphinx c 1890-1891 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Sons of Mrs. Malcolm Forbes 1887-1888 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Brothers
from left to right: Henry Forbes (b. 1882) and Gerrit Forbes (1880-ca.
1965)
Notes:
Image taken
from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian
Catalogue of Works
Bibilography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 1, The early
portraits,"... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Sketchers 1914 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Simplon: Large Rocks 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Simplon Stream c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Simplon c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Offered
Sotheby's; 5/24/2001; Lot 5
Sold
Christie's; 5/25/1989; Lot 225; $28,600
Sold
Sotheby's; 5/25/1988; Lot 173; $26,400
Date
estimated by Natasha. Sotheby's has a date of 1919, but this is highly
doubtful.
Exhibited:
New York,
Coe Kerr Gallery, John Singer Sargent, His Own
Work,
May-June
1980, no. 53, illustrated
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 | The Siesta 1905 Private collection: The Harrison Family USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Shallows about 1911 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Shadowed Stream 1900-1920 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Rt. Reverend William Lawrence 1916 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Rotunda Dome Murals and sculptures Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Road 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Rialto, Venice 1911 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA |
Under the Rialto Bridge
1909
Notes:
Exhibitions
Gondola
Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
Froum
From: Jason
Ic er 0@aol.com
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004
The Rialto,
Venice spoke to me as both a great spatial painting with the different levels
of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Rialto c. 1909 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Exhibited
London,
England, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A.,
1926, no. 26, illustrated p. 100
New York,
New York City Art Gallery, New York City Art Gallery Loan Exhibition, 1926, no.
2
Bibliography
Hon. Evan
Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 291
Richard
Ormond, John Singer Sargent:... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Portal of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Plains of Esdraelon 1905 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(18-Dec-2001)
The Plains
of Esdraelon (or Jezreel) extend from the Mediterranean coast to the Jordan
River in present day Israel. They are sometimes called the valley of Megiddon,
anglicised as ‘Armageddon’, the battlefield in the New Testament
where the powers of good and evil fight at the end of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Pink Dress 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Piazzetta, Venice c.1904 |
The view in
the painting is facing the front of the old Library (designed by Jacopo
Sansovino in 1536) the Pizzetta to the right and beyond which leads to St.
Mark’s Square from the lagoon where Sargent paints this. You can somewhat
see the winged lion of St. Mark in the background (thumbnail left). The
freestanding column supporting St Theodor... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Piazzetta and Ducale Palace c. 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
See also:
The Piazzetta, Venice
c.1904
Watercolor on paper
Palazzo Ducale
(Dodge's Palace)
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | The Pavement 1898 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Ross |
A stunning
painting of the interior of San Marco in Venice.
After
almost two full decades since his Venetian Studies of 1880 and 1882, Sargent
seems to be captivated once again by the dark interiors and play of light of
this wonderful city. What is different this time, at least in the case of this
painting, is a higher degree of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Patio 1908 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Olive Grove c. 1910 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Official White House portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. |
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) twenty-sixth president of the
United States.
Sargent's
painting would be the official portrait of the President, but it wasn't the
first. In 1902 Theobald Chartran
was commissioned
to paint portraits of the President and his wife. Although she enjoyed her's (a feminine portrait of her on a bench outside... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Mountains of Moab 1905 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Mosquito Net 1908 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. |
Notes
Lycos did
not date the painting. It apepars to be the same time as Mosquito Nets 1908.
The SIRIS thinks the date might be 1910
References:
White
House, 1988.
Hoopes,
Donelson F., "The Private World of John Singer Sargent," New York:
Shorewood Publishers Inc., (Corcoran Gallery of Art), 1964.
Illustration: ... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Moraine 1908 Curtis Galleries, Inc. Minneapolis, MN |
Moraine:
(noun) an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a
glacier.
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent in
Italy, 2002-2003
Sale
Sold
Christies; 5/26/1999; Lot 90; $772,500
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 | The Misses Vickers 1884 |
From left
to right: Florence Evelyn "Evelyn" (18 years old), Mabel Frances (21
years old), and Clara Mildred "Mildred" (19 years old)
When
Sargent showed the painting at the Paris Salon in May of '85, they snubbed it
and called it "pseudo-Velasquez." When he showed it the following
year in London at Royal Academy's exhibition of '86, it was... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Misses Hunter 1902 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(11-Jan-1994)
Sargent was
commissioned to paint Kathleen, Cary Phyllis and Sylvia Hunter by their mother
Mary, who was a leading Edwardian society hostess and close friend both of
Sargent and Rodin. The fan held by the centre figure echoes the overall sweep
of the young women's full skirts in what is a... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Master and His Pupils 1914 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Marchioness of Bath 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
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 | The Loggia 1910 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Little Fruit Seller 1879 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Libreria c. 1902-12 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
More on the
Libreria see:
The Piazzetta,
Venice
c.1904
Watercolor on paper
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | The Library in Venice Undated National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
The Piazzetta, Venice and the Libreria
c.1904
Notes:
Bibliography
Lovell,
Margaretta M., VENICE: THE AMERICAN VIEW 1860-1920, Fine Arts Museums of SF:
1984, no.62.
Venice:
From a State to a Myth. Exh. cat. San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice,1997: 386-387,
no. 102.
Little,
Carl. The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent.... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Letter, Portrait of Violet Ormond 1902 |
Violet
1881
Notes:
My
gratitude to Stephanie for letting me know about this painting on the net.
As of 2/24/2002
it was offered for sale at Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc.
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 | The Late Major E C Harrison as a Boy 1887 |
Although
the Fogg doesn't date the work, the very unusual nature of the painting with
the heavy halo effect may put in
line with some of the drawings he did for Alma Strettell's book Spanish and
Italian Folk Songs
Spanish Madonna
1887
Bibliography
John Singer
Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist,... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Lake of Tiberias 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Special
thanks to Shannon Richardson for a link to Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc which
contained (Literature, Exhibitions and Provenance)
Literature
W. Adelson,
text, John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, New York, 1980,
n.p.,
recorded
Exhibitions
New York,
M. Knoedler & Co., Watercolors by Sargent and Brabazon,
1941, no.... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Judgment (West Wall, Center, lunette) 1916 Boston Public Library Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Jetty at San Vigilio 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Israelites Oppressed and Frieze of the Prophets (North End, lunette) 1895 Boston Public Library Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Interior of a Hospital Tent 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
On
September 24, Sargent was near Peronne
with the Fourth Army Prisoners of War Transit Cage which was were they held the Prisoners taken from the front before
sending them further back. Sargent made sketches
here, but while doing so caught a bad case of influenza.
He was
taken to the 41st Casualty Clearing Station near Roisel
were he stayed a... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Hotel Room c.1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
For
discussion of, see
View from a Window Genoa, Italy
1911
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | The Honourable Mrs. Charles Russell 1900 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Adah
Russell (nee Williams)
For
write-up on this painting see the Essay and image: Copy of Mrs. Charles
Russell, in Madrid
Notes:
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 382.
McKibbin,
David,... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Honorable Laura Lister 1896 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Mrs. Alice
Christiana (Thompson) Meynell, The Work of John S. Sargent, R. A. (London,
England/New York NY, 1903), text and repr, full page, b/w (unpaginated)
William
Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work (Boston MA, 1925), p. 179,
repr. opp. p. 156
Evan
Charteris, John Sargent (New York, NY, 1927), p. 109 and... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Hon. Mrs. Gilbert Legh c. 1902 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Hon. Clare Stuart-Wortley 1923 |
Note:
The museum
has her name spelled Stuart-Worthley, but Stuart-Wortley is I assume the
correct spelling as that is a well-known British aristocratic name -- Matt
Davies.
Sale:
Sold
Christies; 12/2/1998; Lot 41; $57,500
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- John Singer Sargent
