John Singer Sargent and His American Contemporaries in Venice

John Singer Sargent, Venetian Interior, 1882.
"Born to American parents in Florence, Italy, in 1856, John Singer Sargent spent his youth traveling through Europe with his family. From 1874 to 1885 he lived in Paris, receiving formal training in fine art and forming friendships with artists from around the world, including American painters. On visits extending from 1880 into 1881 and again in 1882, Sargent returned to Italy for several months at a time, beginning his mature artistic exploration of the city of Venice. An American art colony had already begun to form there and these artists were joined by painters and printmakers from a number of European nations, as well as artists from various provinces of the newly united Italian Kingdom; and more significantly, a thriving and innovative company of Venetian painters. ..."
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John Henry Twachtman, Venice, Campo Santa Marta, circa 1878.

2013 October: John Singer Sargent Watercolors, 2015 May: Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, 2016 November: A Street Scene in Venice (1880-81)