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John Singer Sargent

1856 - 1925

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John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Singer Sargent has received more than 3,014,750 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. John Singer Sargent is the 343rd most popular painter (down from 290th in 2019), the 1,110th most popular biography from Italy (down from 934th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Italian Painter.

John Singer Sargent is most famous for his portraits.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Singer Sargent ranks 343 out of 2,023Before him are Hendrik Goltzius, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Palma Vecchio, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Giovanni Segantini, and Lucio Fontana. After him are Richard Serra, Federico Zuccari, Dosso Dossi, Polygnotus, William Holman Hunt, and Philipp Otto Runge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, John Singer Sargent ranks 25Before him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Andrey Markov, Frank B. Kellogg, L. Frank Baum, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. After him are H. Rider Haggard, Jean Moréas, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Mikhail Vrubel, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, and Stepa Stepanović. Among people deceased in 1925, John Singer Sargent ranks 33Before him are Eugen Sandow, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Karl Abraham, Oliver Heaviside, Fritz Haarmann, and Percy Fawcett. After him are H. Rider Haggard, Pierre Louÿs, Clément Ader, Johann Palisa, Max Linder, and Lovis Corinth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, John Singer Sargent ranks 1,110 out of 5,161Before him are Francesco Morosini (1619), Paolo Conte (1937), Gemma Galgani (1878), Giovanni Segantini (1858), Princess Carolina of Parma (1770), and Peter Chrysologus (380). After him are Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Giuseppe Moscati (1880), Joannes (400), Federico Zuccari (1539), and Giulio Natta (1903).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, John Singer Sargent ranks 97Before him are Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1488), Francesco Primaticcio (1504), Ludovico Carracci (1555), Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691), Palma Vecchio (1480), and Giovanni Segantini (1858). After him are Federico Zuccari (1539), Dosso Dossi (1480), Domenico Veneziano (1410), Taddeo Gaddi (1290), Lorenzo Monaco (1370), and Francesco Albani (1578).