Paul Helleu Sketching His Wife Alice

Raised in Europe by an American expatriate family, Sargent attended art schools in Paris

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. He was also a prolific landscape and figure artist, producing more than 1,000 dazzling oils and watercolors.