#1856–1925 american artist

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

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known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal public instruction, constitutional government, and equal rights for women and people of all races, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and Enlightenment rationalism. He died in prison after a period of flight from French Revolutionary authorities.

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🍂 The oil painting by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925, American) - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885

[antonio-m]

"Massage in a Bathhouse", c.1891 by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). American expatriate artist. oil on canvas

[eddy25960]

Dr. Pozzi at Home (portrait of Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi), c.1881 by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). American expatriate artist. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. oil on canvas.

[heavenlymorals]

Some artists that I think Arthur would really like cuz I'm kinda bored(aka, an excuse to show art history):

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925):

John Singer Sargent is an icon and his composition is legendary. He wasn't that focused on very intense detail as he was with form and it's amazing what he was able to do. Eye catching, yet unrendered. Realistic, yet simplistic. Though he paintings were phenomenal, I think Arthur would enjoy his charcoal portraits the most, though. They are so beautiful and I feel like Arthur would be fascinated by how Sargent was able to use tones to give the allusion of detail rather than actually drawing out the detail. I think Arthur would adore how Sargent made them feel so real with how simplistic the composition is.

Thomas Moran (1837-1926):

Thomas Moran is a landscape artist whose main muse was the vast American frontier. His most famous paintings are that of Yellowstone National Park and the gorgeous Grand Canyon. His oil paintings are colorful and vibrant and have so much emotion to them. Given that Arthur is often outdoors and is super connected to nature, he'd probably really enjoy Moran's oil paintings of higher elevation like canyons and mountains.

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889):

Alexandre Cabanel is a portrait artist who created some of the most iconic oil paintings to have ever graced our eyes. His academic style of painting focused a lot on detail and precise rendering, unlike Sargent. Given the general gloominess and the melodrama of his oil paintings, I feel like Arthur would really like the figures that Cabanel painted, especially considering how emotional they are. Arthur, being emotionally repressed, might connect even more with them because of it. Cabanel was a damn genius.

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1825):

I know some of y'all are like "what the hell is Civil War hero and US President Ulysses S. Grant doing on this list?" Well, cuz he was a pretty dope artist too. In the few drawings we have from him, his main medium seems to be watercolor and his watercolor drawings are really unique. They focused more on composition than detail and they remind me so much of Arthur's own drawings, except they are in watercolor rather than lead or charcoal. I think Arthur might also enjoy how personal they all feel and how simplistic.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910):

Homer was an impressionist painter whose main muse was the everyday man and woman. His oil paintings are vibrant and full of life as they depict the everyday life of workers rather than people of leisure. Unrendered strokes from the brush put so much personality into the paintings and even life. Beautiful and bright paintings, all of them, but I feel like Arthur would connect most with the ones that depict land rather than the ones that depict water.

[worldsandemanations]

Painting by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American Artist.

[thepaintedroom]

John Singer Sargent (American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) ) • The Breakfast Table • 1883-84 Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Gallery Text (Harvard Art Museums):

In this lively portrait, Sargent explores the material culture of the Victorian elite. The ostensible subject is his younger sister, Violet, who peels an orange in the midst of her morning reading. But Sargent is as interested in conveying his sister’s character as he is in portraying her surroundings. Laden with ceramics, crystal, crisp white linens, and shimmering silver, The Breakfast Table captures the look and feel of the well-appointed French apartment that the Sargent family rented in the south of France in the summer of 1883.Painted in Paris, the work exemplifies Sargent’s regard for the formal innovations of the French impressionists. With its cropped and compressed foreground, loose brushwork, and muted palette punctuated by daubs of bright white, it evokes the paintings of Degas and Manet. An inscription at lower right dedicates the work to Albert Besnard, a French artist and friend who also explored the effects of light and shadow.

[stephensmithuk]

The Illustrious Client

First published in the US in 1924 and the UK in 1925, the latter as a two-parter, this forms part of Case-book.

The first part in The Strand ends with Watson seeing the newspaper headline about the attack on Holmes.

Northumberland Avenue is a street running from Trafalgar Square to the Thames Embankment. It includes a pub called The Sherlock Holmes.

The Carlton Club was founded by the Conservative Party and was long its defacto headquarters. Originally on Carlton Terrace, it moved to Pall Mall in 1835, with the building rebuilt in 1856. A direct hit by a German bomb in 1940 destroyed the building and the Club moved to 69 St James's Street, former home of Arthur's Club. Women were not allowed to be associate members until the 1970s and not full members until 2008, with Margaret Thatcher getting honorary membership when she become Tory leader in 1975. She later become club president in 2009, although by his point she had dementia and died in 2013.

The general consensus is that the "Illustrious Client" is no less than Edward VII himself, who Holmes may have previously gotten the Beryl Coronet back for.

Prague was then under Austrian rule.

The Splügen Pass, used for travel since Roman times, connects Switzerland and Italy and with its great height, hairpins and spectacular views, is considered one of the greatest driving challenges on the planet, having featured in Top Gear. The San Bernandino tunnel has taken most of the non-tourist traffic and it is now closed in winter for safety reasons.

Kingston upon Thames, known as Kingston for short, is a town located 10 miles SW of Charing Cross. Until 1965, it was in Surrey before becoming part of Greater London and part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Surrey County Council were based there until 2021, when their offices moved to Reigate.

The Hurlingham Club in Fulham is where horse polo's rules were established - it even hosted Olympic polo in the 1908 London Games, but the fields were compulsorily purchased by the local council after the Second World War for housing. It was also home to pigeon shooting and was home of world croquet, still holding major events in the latter. Edward VII was a keen patron of the site.

Charlie Peace was an English burglar and double murderer, executed in 1879. He ended up featuring in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, which was oddly enough replaced between 2016 and 2022 with an immersive Sherlock Holmes Experience... which at £66.50 a ticket was a bit too expensive.

HMP Parkhurst, a Category B prison located on the Isle of Wight, merged in 2009 with HMP Albany to form HMP Isle of Wight, although each part retains its own name. Notable inmates include the Kray Twins, Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady and currently Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadžić.

Hypnotism was rather in vogue by this time.

Apaches were the name given to various criminal gangs in Paris; named after the Native American tribe. There are various suggestions as to how that came about.

Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, was widely known for its artistic community during this time, with many a famous name living there due to the low rents. It's still there and development is restricted due to the historic character. Pigalle, Paris's red-light district, is next door.

Kitty Winter would feature as a character in Elementary, played by Ophelia Lovibond. Gruner turns up as well.

"Tinker’s curse" is Kitty saying, in the language of the time, that she does not give an [expletive deleted].

Ruritania is a fictional country first featured in the 1894 Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda. It has become a byword for quaint small European countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

China was still an Empire in 1902, nominally ruled by the Guangxu Emperor, aka Zaitan, but an 1898 coup resulted in his loss of any real power; he was even in house arrest for a while. He died in 1908, probably poisoned by arsenic. His nephew, Puyi, would be the last Chinese Emperor and is beyond the scope of this article.

I cannot discuss Chinese pottery in any depth and so will not attempt to.

Some husbands might have questioned the gallantry of King Edward VII, who had a box for his mistresses at his coronation.

Armorial bearings are the "shield" part of a coat of arms. The British royal one traditionally depicted a bare-breasted woman as part of the harp on the bottom left, but this is no longer standard practice.

Edward VII, while having no actual political power, was able to exercise quite a bit of influence behind the scenes, especially in foreign and defence policy.

All criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of the monarch, rendered "R" (Rex or Regina) in text and "the Crown" when spoken). i.e. R vs. Winter. In addition, judicial reviews (i.e. is this government decision legal) are also brought in the name of the monarch, with the name of the actual plaintiff in brackets since a 2001 change to the format, e.g. R (Smith) vs. Secretary of State for the Home Department. It is common for initials to be used in those brackets to protect the identity of a plaintiff, such as the recent decision on flying migrants to Rwanda.

[szigetingy]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) ~ The Black Brook, c.1908. (Oil paint on canvas. Tate) – The girl seated in the foreground of this painting is the artist’s niece, Rose Marie Ormond, daughter of Mrs Francis Ormond and later wife of Robert Michel. The site is a mountain stream at the Chalets de Purtud, near Courmayeur, Val d’Aosta, just south-west of Mont Blanc and almost 5,000 ft. above sea-level. (NégyArt) Németh György Pin

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amalia Subercaseaux (1860-1930), wife of Chilean consul and artist Ramón Subercaseaux, seated at a piano in the couple’s elegant and stylish residence on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne. The portrait occupies an important place in the narrative of Sargent’s early career. Exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1881, along with his portrait of the Pailleron children, it earned him a second-class medal, which meant that he was allowed to exhibit at future Salons without submitting to the jury.

[museum-archives]

Princess Demidoff

Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

Date: about 1895-1896

Medium: oil on canvas

[resplendentoutfit]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925) • Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch • 1903 • Private collection

Dress Credit: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937), Evening dress, about 1900, silk, chiffon, and linen lace • Private collection

Viewing both the portrait and the photograph of the dress offers a distinct occasion to consider the artist, the subject, the dynamics of portraiture, and the culture of the time period during which both portrait and garment were produced. Now on view, the elegant blue and white evening dress designed by the Parisian couturier Callot Soeurs at the turn of the twentieth century and worn by Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch for her portrait by John Singer Sargent. The premier international portraitist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sargent flourished as a painter to the English upper class.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

John Singer Sargent (American expatriate, 1856-1925)

Corfu Lights and Shadows, 1909.

[antonio-m]

“Dr. Pozzi at Home” (portrait of Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi), c.1881 by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). American expatriate artist. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. oil on canvas

[nobility-art]

Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland

Artist: John Singer Sargent  (American, 1856–1925) 

Title: Portrait of Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1904

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland RRC was a Scottish society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist, and playwright, often using the pen name Erskine Gower. Her first husband was Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland.

[sorcerous-caress]

ugh LOVE the art u have in ur header thank u for posting the links to it alwaysss <333

Oh man I get you, it's crazy how gorgeous some older paintings are. Really slept on ngl. And the fact they're all in the public domian just free to grab and use?? It's a literal goldmine.

I used to use them in the fic headers and divders in my old wiring blog! Each fic and work would have a different painting somehow related to the story, like a nice little easter egg since I'd always write the painting name and the artist who made it underneath.

But none seemed to care for them, really, and it did get tiring after a while because I had to search for a fitting painting each time I wanted to post a new work. So now I switched to the same red, gold, and pink flower themed headers that I drew myself for my fics. They're not eye-catching, but at least they are unique enough to look familiar for my readers to recognise my works.

Anyway here are some of my favourite paintings!

"The poet’s dream" by Emil Holárek (Czech, 1867–1919)

"Night" (1875) by Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch (French, 1833-1912)

"Still Life with Flowers, a Tankard with Figural Decor and Samovar" (1843) by József Borsos (Hungarian, 1821–1883)

"Ideallandschaft mit Tempel" by Christian Wilberg (German, 1839-1882)

"Arranging Flowers" by Wilhelm Kotarbiński (Russian, 1849-1921)

All of these paintings done by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) (he is truly one of my favourites <33)

Especially this painting of his! "Orestes and The furies" (Ca. 1920–21)

"Three Watchful Kittens" (1893) by Charles Van Den Eycken (Belgian, 1859-1923)

You should definitely check him out because all and i mean ALL of his work is painting cute kittens, puppies and cats being so adorable!!!

[sagent-of-chaos]

Title: Angel, Study for "Annunciation"

Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)

Date: ca. 1909–10

Culture: American

Medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper with printed grid