John Singer Sargent Landscapes A collection of paintings 4 K Ultra HD

John Singer Sargent (18561925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. In 1879, at the age of 23, Sargent painted a portrait of teacher CarolusDuran; the virtuoso effort met with public approval, and announced the direction his mature work would take. Its showing at the Paris Salon was both a tribute to his teacher and an advertisement for portrait commissions. Of Sargent s early work, Henry James wrote that the artist offered the slightly uncanny spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to After leaving CarolusDuran s atelier, Sargent visited Spain. There he studied the paintings of Velázquez with a passion, absorbing the master s technique, and in his travels gathered ideas for future works. He was entranced with Spanish music and dance. The trip also reawakened his own tal