John Singer Sargent was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead to charcoal drawings to satisfy portrait commissions. These drawn portraits represent a substantial, yet often overlooked, part of his practice, and demonstrate the same sense of immediacy, psychological insight, and mastery of chiaroscuro that animate Sargent’s sitters on canvas. #johnsingersargent | John Sin

121K views · 2.1K shares | John Singer Sargent was the go-to portrait painter of the Gilded Age. His style was considered daring and unconventional, and today, 90 years after his death, his extraordinary portraits are treasured all over the world. Martha Teichner reports on why the master of portraiture is being celebrated in the 21st century. | John Singer Sargent | Facebook

6.7K views · 195 reactions | John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. | John Singer Sargent | Facebook

4.4K views · 151 reactions | Nearly 100 years after his death, John...