Although the title of the painting refers to Algiers, most sources believe the painting was actually done in Morocco at Tangier.  In 1880 Sargent and his party of friends traveled from Spain to Morocco (and what is vaguely referred to as "North Africa") for about six weeks. His exact itenery during this time, from what I can tell, is...

Painting appears to be fishermen drying their nets on the beach somewhat in theme with what he would do in Egypt in 1890-1891: Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile   1890-91 Dating of the work is difficult as I can put Sargent NEAR Algeria any number of years but not IN Algeria any specific year. Possibly he was there as...

Madame Subercaseaux (born 1860) twenty years old at the time, was the newlywed wife (married 1879) of the Chilean consul to Paris. The following is from her diary. It was in Paris during the Spring of 1880 that Sargent painted my portrait which won the prize the following year [2nd place at the Salon]. Shortly before this, when we were visiting...

Notes:  Image taken from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian Catalogue of Works  Bibliography: Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 32. McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston:...

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...