John Singer Sargent

Sargent dazzles with bravura, fluid brushwork — elegant society portraits caught with sparkling immediacy. Look for confident sweeping strokes, luminous fabrics, and an effortless, glamorous likeness.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was a painter from United States, associated with Realism.

A mid-19th-century turn to everyday life and ordinary working people, painted honestly and without idealization. Realism →

More Realism painters: Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Camille Corot, Ilya Repin.

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