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JOHN SINGER SARGENTJohn Singer (Sargent is dead. He died in his London studio, in April, where 'he was engaged on a portrait of Princess Mary and \ iscount Lascelles, now left uncompleted. Mr. Sargent -is considered 'the greatest portrait painter of 'his time. His career contains none of the proverbial early struggles which are so often looked upon as indispensable to greatness in the arts. Sargent came to Paris as a youth from his Florentine home, and easily gained admission to the atelier of Carolus-Duran, where he proceeded to outstrip his master. Almost immediately he had all Europe at hisfeet. He pierced below the surface and painted the soul of his sitter.Strangely enough, it was not as a painter of portraits that he wished to be known, He wanted to ’be a mural decorator, and has left many fine murals in Boston; the public library, the museum, and the Widener Library at Cambridge. But it is as a portrait painter that he excelled. He also did many fine landscapes. He was one of the few artists who have, while living, had their wo;rkhung in the National Gallery of London. With him dies America’sgreatest claim to artistic consideration, but fortunately his work survives.
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Elmira College Weekly
Elmira, New York, US
Thu, May 14, 1925
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