John Singer SargentAmerican, 1856–1925Study for Moses, Boston Public Library (recto and verso)
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Cambridge, United States
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Page is torn vertically; this appears to have been done by the artist, as an inscription on this page stops where the page is torn.
Harvard Art Museums
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- 1937.7.32.18
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In the life of John Singer Sargent
The whole life1887–1888
His first solo exhibition in Boston
In Boston Sargent is honoured with his first solo exhibition, which presents 22 of his paintings; there he becomes friends with the painter Dennis Miller Bunker.
1887–1888
His first professional trip to New York and Boston
His first trip to New York and Boston as a professional artist produces over twenty important commissions, among them portraits of the Boston art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner and of Mrs. Adrian Iselin, wife of a New York businessman.
summer 1888
Dennis Miller Bunker comes to paint with him outdoors
In the summer of 1888 Dennis Miller Bunker travels to England to paint with Sargent en plein air; he is the subject of Sargent's 1888 painting “Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot”.
c. 1890
Elected to the Royal Academy
Sargent is elected an associate of the Royal Academy and is made a full member three years later.
1893
Nine portraits at the Chicago World's Fair
In 1893 Sargent exhibits nine of his portraits in the Palace of Fine Arts at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
1895–1919
The “Triumph of Religion” murals for the Boston Public Library
From 1895 through 1919, for almost thirty years, Sargent works on his largest-scale work, the mural decorations “Triumph of Religion” for the Boston Public Library, showing religion's progress from pagan superstition to the ascension of Christianity; he never completes the final mural of the cycle.
