General & Miscellaneous American Art, Portraiture, Victorian & Edwardian Art, British Art, Individual Artists, General & Miscellaneous European Art, Painters - Biography
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Overview
Never has an artist been more exalted or vilified throughout his career and afterwards. John Singer Sargent was best known for his remarkable portraits, mostly high-society commissions, which many of his critics hailed as mere "art applied to social requirement and social ambition." However, no one can deny the opulence with which he portrayed his wealthy patrons, nor the luminosity of his other subject matter, be it foreign landscapes, people or architecture.Book Details
Published
August 1, 2001
Publisher
Grange Books Ltd
Pages
144
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781571452702