Sargent

Gilded Age painter

Sargent is a surname, most famously borne by John Singer Sargent, the American portrait painter celebrated for his technical brilliance and society portraits in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The name also appears as a variant spelling of the military rank sergeant.

painter

portrait

Artistic depiction of someone

oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
brushworkPainter's stroke method
canvasHeavy woven cloth

Gilded Age · Victorian · impressionism · realism · watercolor · expatriate · Boston · plein air · mural · charcoal

surname

genealogy

Study of family descent

ancestryFamily line of descent
familyRelated people together
heritageInherited cultural legacy

lineage · patronymic · clan · kinship · descent · bloodline · forebears · dynasty · relatives · kin

place

Nebraska

Central plains state

TexasSecond-largest American state
GeorgiaName shared by country and state
townshipCounty's smaller division

municipality · locale

Opposites

artistic movement/style

SargentMarcel Duchamp

Urinal-as-art provocateur

Pablo Picasso · Kazimir Malevich · Jackson Pollock · Piet Mondrian · avant-garde

subject matter and social orientation

SargentDiego Rivera

Mexican mural master

social realism · Vincent van Gogh · documentary photography

artistic philosophy

SargentFrancis Bacon

outsider art · Grandma Moses · naive art · primitivism · folk art

Family

sergeant, sergeants, sergeancy

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G