Love Sargent - his portraits have such life in them
The dogs fur has large brush strokes and some tiny precise hairs - but the effect is so true to life :)
Reminds me of Liv Tyler for some reason
Beatrice seems nice.
Sargent was not as well-known a few decades ago as he seems to be today. Sargent was well under my radar when I was discovering many other painters like Turner and Friedrich, Rothko and Pollock, Bacon and Freud, Rauschenberg and Liechtenstein.
Seems like in the past couple of years, Sargent has surged in stature, and good, he deserves more attention.
I’d certainly not heard of him when learning about impressionists at school. Definitely deserves more widespread acclaim. An interesting life too, Born to Americans in Italy, trained and working in France, then rejected after his “Portrait of Madame X” so he moved to England and made further portrait work and paintings of his friends at rest.
