Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock one morning during the past week, a young housemaid went up the stairs of a big London house to awaken her master, John Singer Sargent. She found him dead on his pillow with a volume spread open, face down, on the reading table beside him. Physicians who arrived to pronounce the inevitable, grisly abracadabra, said that he had died in his sleep of an apoplectic seizure. So, at the age of 69, ended the life of an eminent and talented gentleman who has been recognized for the last 30 years as the greatest portrait painter of his period...
John Singer Sargent died once before, in 1899. He was killed in the office of a British newspaper syndicate and had the pleasure, next day, of reading florid obituaries of himself in the English and Continental press. He read how he, the son of a New England physician, had been born in Florence, Italy, studied art in France, painted a portrait of his teacher, Carolus Duran, which was exhibited in the Salon of 1877 and made him famous at 21. He read of the many commissions that were showered upon him from the month of that first success...
...charcoal, in watercolor. His murals have manifested his passion for pure beauty in line, form and color. His industry never dwindled; it remained to the last as great as that of an artist who would never achieve anything. This fact was pungently observed by a woman who came upon Sargent doing a watercolor by a Hampshire wayside, stood, for several minutes, watching him. "Why do people imagine they can paint? There's a man whose hair is turning gray...
Attorney General John G. Sargent, declared Artist Albert Rosenthal, is a "great figure to paint. He's a Lincoln type." Mr. Sargent's portrait will be painted at the expense of the U. S., as are portraits of all Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet Officers, Presiding Officers of the Senate and House. Pictures of Associate Justices of the Supreme Court (of which Mr. Rosenthal has 35 to sell, including those of Justices Brewer, Harlan, Brown, McKenna, Peckham, Moody, Holmes, Day) are not paid for by the Government...
Attorney General Sargent, Universalist...