Thursday, January 13, 2011

Art Minute: Happy Birthday John Singer Sargent!


Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
John Singer Sargent
Tate Gallery, London, England
68.50 inch wide x 60.50 inch high

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and water colorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents.

Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.