1856–1925

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris under Carolus-Duran. The scandal over his Madame X at the 1884 Salon prompted his move to London, where he became the leading society portraitist of the era. Around 1907 he largely gave up portrait commissions for landscapes and watercolors. He also painted murals for the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He died in London in 1925.

Where to see John Singer Sargent: Art Institute of Chicago (5 works); National Gallery of Art (9 works); National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian (3 works).

Public-domain works: Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre), 1882; Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897; Mrs. Charles Deering (Marion Denison Whipple), 1888; Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880; Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott), 1901; Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin (Mrs. Adrian Iselin), 1888; Marie Buloz Pailleron (Madame Édouard Pailleron), 1879; Miss Mathilde Townsend, 1907; Miss Beatrice Townsend, 1882; Miss Grace Woodhouse, 1890; Leonard Wood, 1903; Henry Cabot Lodge, 1890; Charles Herbert Woodbury, 1921; Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White), 1883; The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain), 1902; Peter A. B. Widener, 1902.