She even gave him permission to use the antique furniture as props. That’s right- Sargent had a studio right next door to the Tower Building! Isabella Stewart Gardner gave Sargent the use the Gothic Room in her home one month after Fenway Court opened (now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). Let’s take a virtual walking tour.īegin the virtual walking tour after the break.Ģ80 The Fenway The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum Many of the places he worked and frequented still stand and are just a stones-throw from MassArt. He considered himself an American but it wasn’t until he was 17 that he actually stepped foot in the United States! But when he did visit America, he considered Boston (and especially the Back Bay) his home. Sargent spoke four languages and studied art in Florence, Dresden, Berlin and Paris. Growing up, he lived all over Europe France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He was born in Florence, Italy, in 1856 to an expatriate Philadelphia surgeon father (who was also a skilled medical illustrator), and a Boston heiress mother who had a knack for watercolors and a passion for Europe. We typically think of John Singer Sargent as a citizen of the world, and the current show at the Museum of Fine Arts of his brilliant watercolors, many depicting exotic locales, attest to that.
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