John Singer Sargent
American
Lineage
- Father Fitzwilliam Sargent
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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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 |
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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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