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John Singer Sargent
Painter. Sargent traveled in a circle of socially prominent people and is known for his loosely painted portraits done in a style reminiscent of Edgar Degas and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.Madame Xcaused a minor scandal at the Salon of 1884 and was rejected by Sargent's client because Sargent depicted her as vain. He devoted his later career to impressionistic watercolor scenes.Joan StahlAmerican Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection(Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
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John Singer Sargent: Immerse yourself in the absolute pinnacle of incredibly fluid, masterfully brushed late 19th-century American high-society portraiture by John Singer Sargent.