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John Singer Sargent was born in Florence, Italy. He grew up in Europe, and studied painting in Paris.

His first visit to the USA took place in He traveled much throughout Europe to study the art of different countries and times.

At the 1884 Paris Salon, Sargent showed his now famous picture Madame X Madame X, the portrait of the 23-year-old American Virginie Gautreau.

In 1886, he moved to London. During the next two years Sargent experimented with the Impressionist style. He was a close friend of Claude Monet.

In , Sargent was busy painting the play of light on sunlit water, catching the exact flicker, the ripple of the reflections and their fleeting effect on objects with range.

He made several studies of his sister, Mrs Ormond, under those conditions: A Morning Walk A Morning Walk, A Gust of Wind A Gust of Wind. These pictures show a delicacy of touch and a tenderness of color which give way to other qualities in his later work.

The charm we see here is not the charm we are accustomed to look for in the work of subsequent years. It is more intimate and personal, more subtle and pervasive.

In a few years Sargent became the most admired portrait painter in Britain and the United States.

By 1907, Sargent got tired of portrait painting. He resumed his travels through Europe and to America. He painted constantly but turned to landscapes, producing more than 1,000 oils and watercolors.

He also gladly accepted the more demanding challenge of murals for the Boston Public Library, for the Museum of Fine Arts and for the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard on which he was still working at the time of his death. Sargent died in London in 1925.

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