Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1856/01/12 John Singer Sargent is born in Florence, Italy to Mary Newbold Singer and FitzWilliam Sargent. The precise date of birth cannot be confirmed by any official document, though FitzWilliam claimed eighteen years later that he had registered the birth. Born
1884/00/00 "Madame X" is exhibited at Salon 1884. Created in 30 sessions, Sargent chose the black dress (or two-piece skirt and bodice drawn in at the waist). Originally sketched as missing, one of Madame X's dress straps is shown off her shoulder. Painter Madame X Salon of 1884
1885/00/00 Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood - created Painter Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood
1885/00/00 Carnation Lily Lily Rose - created Painter Carnation Lily Lily Rose
1888/00/00 Isabella Stewart Gardner - created Painter Isabella Stewart Gardner
1890/00/00 John Singer Sargent visits the Parkmans. Guest Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion Portsmouth, NH
1891/00/00 John Singer Sargent sojourns in Egypt in search of source material and inspiration, drawn to the Middle East, like many of his contemporaries, by the region's perceived exoticism and its ancient histories. Home Historic Cairo Cairo
1892/00/00 Lady Agnew of Lochnaw - created Painter Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
1895/00/00 Frederick Law Olmsted - created Painter Frederick Law Olmsted
1895/00/00 John Singer Sargent paints a sequence of murals (oil on canvas set into the wall) on the top floor of the Boston Library between 1895 and 1916. Painter Boston Public Library Boston
1900/08/18 John S Sargent wins a Medal in Painting for "Portrait of Mrs Asher B Wertheimer" at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Painter Grand Palais des Champs Elysees Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle
1901/00/00 John S Sargent moves into a townhouse on Tite St in Chelsea. Home John Singer Sargent House London
1903/01/00 Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. Painter Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston
1903/02/00 At the invitation of Theodore Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent lives in the White House during the month of February to work on Roosevelt's official presidential portrait. Painter Theodore Roosevelt (Sargent painting) The White House Washington, DC
1907/00/00 John Singer Sargent paints "Mrs Henry Phipps and Her Grandson Winston Guest". The portrait hangs in the dining room at Old Westbury Gardens. Winston Churchill was the child's godfather. Painter Old Westbury Gardens North Hempstead
1916/01/08 Sargent keeps his portrait until a year after Amelie's death in obscurity, when he sells it to the Met. Writing to the museum: "I should prefer, on account of the row I had with the lady years ago, that the picture should not be called by her name." Painter Madame X
1916/01/22 After getting Sargent's offer of Madame X, Robinson writes: I have tried in vain for years to get this picture from him ... but for personal reasons he has always refused to part with it, and his change of decision therefore comes as a complete surprise. Painter Madame X
1917/00/00 John Singer Sargent visits Vizcaya, where he creates watercolors of the estate. Visitor Vizcaya Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
1924/00/00 John Sargent paints Mrs Guy Lowell and Mrs Nathaniel B Potter (Henrietta and Mary Sargent) on the Constellation, a 106-foot yacht owned by Herbert Mason Sears. The watercolor, Rainy Day on the Deck of the Yacht Constellation, is in a private collection. Artist
1925/04/14 While reading Voltaire, John Singer Sargent dies suddenly at his Chelsea home of heart disease. Died John Singer Sargent House London
1925/04/18 John Singer Sargent is buried at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey. In Memoriam Headstone to John Singer Sargent 1856 To 1925 Brookwood Cemetery
1925/04/24 American artist John Singer Sargent is eulogized during a Westminster Abbey Memorial Service. In Memoriam Westminster Abbey, London London
1926/00/00 Redemption, a wall monument representing Christ in agony by John S Sargent, is presented in memoriam of the artist by his sisters. A restrained example of late Neo-classicism, the bronze is erected in the crypt of St Paul's by the Royal Academy of Art. Artist Cathedral Church Of St Paul London

7 Creative Works by John Singer Sargent »

Title Type Association Y/M/D Moniker
Title Type Association Y/M/D Moniker
Madame X Painter Painting 1884/00/00
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Carnation Lily Lily Rose Painter Painting 1885/00/00
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood Painter Painting 1885/00/00
Isabella Stewart Gardner Painter Painting 1888/00/00
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Lady Agnew of Lochnaw Painter Painting 1892/00/00
Frederick Law Olmsted Painter Painting 1895/00/00
Theodore Roosevelt (Sargent painting) Painter Painting 1903/02/00

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