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Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair. John Singer Sargent: E Leola John Singer Sargent: Madame X John Singer Sargent: Portrait of Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son, Livingston Davis John Singer Sargent: The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Tennant, and Mrs. Adeane Oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent showing Roosevelt standing with one hand on a wooden pedestal and the other on his hip, dressed in a dark suit. Sir Hugh Allen, drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1925; in the British Museum Lord Cromer, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1902; in the National Portrait Gallery, London Gabriel Fauré Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair.
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John Singer Sargent

Italian-born American painter
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John Singer Sargent (born January 12, 1856, Florence, Italy—died April 15, 1925, London, England) was an Italian-born American painter whose elegant portraits provide an enduring image of Edwardian Age society. The wealthy and privileged on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean came to his studio in London to be immortalized. Sargent was reared abroad and first saw the United States in 1876, when he established citizenship. Serious and reserved, he had a talent for drawing,...

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