John Singer Sargent

thumb|right|I never judge, only chronicle. John Singer Sargent (12 January 1856– 14 April 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. He was an American expatriate who lived most of his life in Europe. Quotes The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism—Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860—it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. In: K.C. Charteris John Sargent, C. Scribener's Sons, 1927, p.125 Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). In K.C. Charteris John Sargent, C. Scribener's Sons, p.123 Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) External links John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent at eeweems.com John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery Sargent at WebMuseum Sargent at Harvard The Sargent Murals at Boston Public Library Category:Artists from the United States Category:1925 deaths Category:1856 births Category:Painters from the United States