John Singer Sargent
″You cannot do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep everything and keep your curiosity fresh.″ JSS By Alexandra A Jopp One of the leading Impressionists, John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) was born to Fitz William and Mary (née Singer) in Florence in 1854. Sargent "was the last great society portraitist - the Van Dyck of his time, as Auguste Rodin was the first to say," art critic Robert Hughes wrote in TIME Magazine. During his career, he created approximately 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Near and Far East, Montana , Maine , and Florida . He was commissioned by members of aristocracy, the great literary and artistic figures of his day, and won countless honors and prizes. His work is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the White House, the Tate Gallery and National Gallery...