These efforts inspired the international focus of the Peace Corps, whose first director, Sargent Shriver, had roots in the area.

Welles married Mathilde Scott Townsend ( 1885 – 1949 ), " a noted international beauty " whose portrait had been painted by John Singer Sargent, on June 27, 1925, in upstate New York.

Sargent was The Libertines ’ photographer from their first live show, and has been responsible for many of their now iconic images, most recently winning acclaim for two major exhibitions, The Libertines – Boys In The Band and Future Legends.

Theodore Sargent, a recent biographer of Goodale, noted that Eastman gained acclaim for the nine books he published on Sioux life, whereas Elaine Eastman's seven books received little notice.

Hay in portrait by John Singer Sargent

Official White House portrait by John Singer Sargent Click on painting for the story behind the portrait.

With his vivid manner of portraiture and his ability to catch unerringly some striking and usually unfamiliar aspect of his subject, he superseded Sargent as England's fashionable portrait painter.

Whistler was not so successful a portrait painter as the other famous expatriate American John Singer Sargent.

John Singer Sargent ( 12 January 1856 – 14 April 1925 ) was an American artist, considered the " leading portrait painter of his generation " for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.

In later life Sargent expressed ambivalence about the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working en plein air.

The young French portrait artist, who had a meteoric rise, was noted for his bold technique and modern teaching methods, and his influence would be pivotal to Sargent during the period from 1874 to 1878.

In 1879, at the age of 23, Sargent painted a portrait of teacher Carolus-Duran ; the virtuoso effort met with public approval, and announced the direction his mature work would take.

Upon his return, Sargent quickly received several portrait commissions.

In 1879 John Singer Sargent painted a small-scale copy of Las Meninas, and in 1882 painted a homage to the painting in his The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, while the Irish artist Sir John Lavery chose Velázquez's masterpiece as the basis for his portrait The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913.

A portrait of Joachim was painted by John Singer Sargent and presented to him at the 1904 " Diamond Jubilee " celebration of his sixtieth anniversary of his first appearance in London.

To the left of the fireplace is a portrait of Nancy, Lady Astor by the American portraitist John Singer Sargent.

* " Portrait of Madame X ", a portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau by John Singer Sargent

Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of Pierre Gautreau.

For Sargent, the scandal resulting from the painting's controversial reception at the Paris Salon of 1884 amounted to the failure of a strategy to build a long-term career as a portrait painter in France.

" Sargent was also impressed, and anticipated that a portrait of Gautreau would garner much attention at the upcoming Paris Salon, and increase interest in portrait commissions.

* John Singer Sargent ( 1856 – 1925 ), portrait artist

* John Singer Sargent ( 1856 – 1925 ), portrait artist

* Margaret Holland Sargent ( b. 1927 ), American portrait artist

At this time the American portrait painter John Singer Sargent also had a studio in the palazzo.

John Singer Sargent painted a joint portrait of the three Wyndham sisters, as well as an individual portrait of Henry White's wife, Margaret.

Perhaps his most valuable contribution was his favourable assessment of fellow expatriate John Singer Sargent, a painter whose critical status has improved markedly in recent decades.

* John Singer Sargent, painter in Villa Torlonia-Frascati

* John Singer Sargent, painter ( b. 1856 )

During its first 60 years, influential artists associated with the school included Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and pioneer of motion graphics ; Maynard Dixon, painter of San Francisco ’ s labor movement and of the landscape of the West ; Henry Kiyama, whose Four Immigrants Manga was the first graphic novel published in the U. S .; Sargent Claude Johnson, one of the first African-American artists from California to achieve a national reputation ; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, an innovative photographer whose work for Harper ’ s Bazaar in the 1930s defined a new American style of “ environmental ” fashion photography ; John Gutzon Borglum, the creator of the large-scale public sculpture known as Mt.

After graduating he travelled to Italy in 1880, and from 1881 to 1883 he lived in Paris, where he studied with the French history painter Jean-Paul Laurens and met the American painter John Singer Sargent ( who was also a painter of male nudes, although this was little known in his lifetime ).

Among those signing it are the British phyician and author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the British novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and the American painter John Singer Sargent.

* Henry Sargent ( 1770 – 1845 ), American painter and soldier

During this period notable artists included Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, janitor turned painter, Lawrence Harris, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, John T. Biggers, Earle Wilton Richardson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, Hale Woodruff, and photographer James Van Der Zee.

) In April 1884 he visited Andalucia in the company of the American painter John Singer Sargent and the gentleman-painter Ralph Curtis.

Kirstein was impressed by the portrait and declared Wyeth the finest American portrait painter since John Singer Sargent.

In 1876, he met the painter John Singer Sargent, who became a close friend.

A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed " the Parisian from Philadelphia.

He became a very successful portrait painter, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent.

* January 12-John Singer Sargent, painter ( d. 1925 )

Eagleton nevertheless received a majority of the votes and the nomination, though he later resigned from the ticket, resulting in Robert Sargent Shriver becoming McGovern's final running mate ; both lost to the Nixon-Agnew ticket by a wide margin, carrying only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

He and Cross were sentenced to life imprisonment and Cross remains in prison to this day, though Sargent has recently been released.

Biographers often interpret that " Annabel Lee " was written for Poe's wife Virginia, who had died two years prior, as was suggested by poet Frances Sargent Osgood, though Osgood is herself a candidate for the poem's inspiration.

She was an environmentalist before the movement entered the political or popular mainstream As a follower of Ayn Rand ( though critical of some of Rand's ideas ), Sargent became involved with the Libertarian Party in 1979.