A MODERN PORTRAIT PAINTER.
Mr John Sargent, who is now recognised as the greatest painter of modern times, is American by parentage, although he was born in Florence. His father was a rich Bostonian, a physician, and young Sargent did not experience the heart-breaking straggles so many painters have known. Carolus Duran was bis teacher for many years, and when Mr Sargent left him, Doran said that if he would stay seven years longer he would make him an artist! He was only 23 when his first picture was exhibited at the Paris Salon and attracted wide attention. It was not that Doran was so greatly mistaken in his pupil’s ability j it was more that thd boy’s genius for work developed at this period with strides and bounds. In bis personality and in his general views of life, he is said to be essentially an American; and while he has preferred to live in England for many years, he has never renounced his American citizenshi p.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12229, 30 August 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167A MODERN PORTRAIT PAINTER. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12229, 30 August 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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