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"Capri Girl on a Rooftop," John Singer Sargent, 1878.

Early in his career, Sargent was focused on landscapes; this scene is from when he was making the transition from landscape to portrait. This is also about the time he was starting to achieve some notice and fame.

The girl of the title is Rosina Ferrara, a local woman who became a muse to several artists. Considered quite an exotic beauty, she became the subject of a dozen paintings by Sargent in one year. Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank Hyde, and George Randolph Barse also painted her. She married Barse and came to the US, where they had a long life.

Sargent was also a musician, and reportedly almost as good a musician as he was a painter. Some of his paintings involved music and dance, like his famous "Jaleo" of a Spanish dancer. He was a champion of contemporary composers like Gabriel Fauré, and he was known to play for friends at parties.

Just the thing for s summer evening, eh?

From the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.

An Impressionist scene. On a Mediterranean rooftop, a woman in traditional Capriote costume dances, while a dark-skinned person keeps time on a large drum. In the background, wooded hills dotted with white houses are seen, with the moon rising over them.
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"An Out-of-Doors Study," John Singer Sargent, 1889.

I've talked about Sargent before, so I won't go into detail except to reiterate that he was THE great society painter of the Edwardian era whose portraits were in demand.

Here we have a double portrait of his friend, painter Paul Helleu, and his wife Alice. Sargent was experimenting with this canvas, trying a different arrangement than his usual, and I think it's a lovely, intimate scene. Paul is busily at work on a new painting; Alice, though, looks disengaged and bored. I was inclined to draw conclusions about their marriage but some research indicates they had a strong and happy marriage, and she was quite a business partner for him.

Wouldn't it be nice to sit by a river and paint?

From the Brooklyn Museum.

An Impressionist painting. A canoe is pulled up on a grassy bank. Beside it sits a man in s a straw hat, busily painting something on a canvas. Beside him, a woman in a straw hat leans up against the canoe, her expression blank.
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"Lady Agnew of Lochnaw," John Singer Sargent, 1892.

Sargent (1856-1925) was THE great society portraitist of the Edwardian era, painting many of the rich and famous...or at least the rich.

Here we have a portrait of Gertrude Vernon, aka Lady Agnew of Lochnaw. Her husband, Sir Andrew Agnew, the 9th Baronet of Lochnaw, married her in 1889, and later joined the military, and then became a member of Parliament. Gertrude was the granddaughter of Robert Vernon, the 1st Lord Lyveden, a prominent Liberal politician in England.

This portrait was her greatest claim to fame; it was so good and so well-received that it made her quite the in-demand personality of the day. However, reportedly the family fell on hard times and was forced to sell the painting to the Scottish National Gallery in 1925, which currently has it out on loan to an American gallery.

Random trivia: The current Lord Lyveden, Colin Vernon, resides in New Zealand.

A Realist portrait of Gertrude Vernon, aka Lady Agnew. A dark-haired beauty, she sits in a baroque chair with a curved back, but off-center, with her left arm hanging over a chair arm, and her right hand in her lap. She wears a white dress with a light purple sash. She looks appraisingly and somewhat skeptically out at the viewer, as if engages in an intimate conversation. The background is a dark blue Chinese shawl with lettering in gold. The overall impression is a mixture of formality and informality.
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"Nonchaloir (Repose)," John Singer Sargent, 1911.

Sargent (1856-1925) was THE great society painter of the Gilded Age. His paintings all look like scenes from an Edith Wharton novel. This image could be Countess Olenska from THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

Really, the model is Sargent's niece, Rose-Marie Ormond. Sargent, by this time, had abandoned formal portraiture and was experimenting with different forms. Here, she's an anonymous, languid figure who epitomizes nonchalance. Or perhaps the ennui so beloved of the Decadents...although, Sargent was hardly a Decadent himself.

From the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

A Realist painting. A young woman lounges on a couch, looking off to the viewer's right. She is richly dressed in silk of beige and blue; the couch is blue-gray. Next to her is a gilded table with a marble top. Behind her is what appears to be the lower part of a large picture frame.
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"Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon," John Singer Sargent, 1904.

Sargent (1856-1925) is deservedly famous as a society portrait painter, giving life to many of luminaries of the Gilded Age. His style and material are almost automatically recognizable.

Helen Vincent (1866-1954) was the wife of noted financier and diplomat, who was known as one of the great beauties of her age. What's lesser known was that she was smart as a whip, hanging out with folks like Henry James and Edith Wharton. She also trained as a nurse and served in casualty hospitals. Her diaries of those times are still in print today. Nice to find a grand dame of the time also be smart and compassionate.

And compare this to yesterday's portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, painted only 12 years later!

From the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

A realist portrait, from society painter John Singer Sargent. A beautiful woman stands, richly dressed, by a balustrade. She's in a black dress with a pink wrap, but her shoulders are bare and her skin is milky pale. Her right hand hangs at her side while her left toys with her necklace. Behind her is rich red curtain, and at lower left is a glimpse of the Grand Canal; this was painted in Venice.
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