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In winter, for example, he was in Spain, where he studied the works of Velazquez in September he was in Venice, where his art focused on dark alleyways, interiors of decaying magnificence, and mysterious, illusive women.
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In September he visited Naples, spending a short time on Capri, where he painted the series of studies of Rosina Ferrara one of these was the Girl of Capri that was exhibited at the Society of American Artists in New York. In 1879 Sargent undertook a number of study-trips to explore the art of the masters of the past. In 1878 he painted his Oyster Gatherers at Cancale (now at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.), which would win a ‘special mention’ at that year’s Salon, thus establishing Sargent’s reputation in Paris. In 1877 he not only exhibited his first work at the Paris Salon – the portrait of a family friend, Fanny Watts – but also worked with Carolus-Duran on the fresco decoration of the ceiling at the Palais du Luxembourg. Having returned to France to continue his studies, Sargent spent the summer in the town of Cancale (Brittany), where he applied Carolus-Duran’s technique in a number of works depicting people at work in the open air.
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There, Sargent would study under Charles-Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran, a renowned portrait-painter, whose concern to render light and shade in the direct application of paint would leave a lasting mark on the young man’s own style. At the same time as studying in Carolus-Duran’s studio, Sargent also prepared for the École des Beaux-Arts entrance exam. In 1876 he met Claude Monet, who would become a friend, and that same year travelled to the United States. In the spring of the following year, however, he moved to Paris, the undisputed centre of modern art and the necessary starting-point for anyone seriously considering a career as an artist. It was his mother who encouraged his interest in painting, and in 1873 the youth would enrol at the Florence Accademia di Belle Arti. The boy would thus pass his childhood in some of the continent’s most fascinating cities, living within a very cosmopolitan world that extended from Italy to France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany he would, in fact, speak four languages, have a cultivated interest in literature and study the pianoforte. After the death of their first child, Mary, at the age of two, the couple had left America in 1854, hoping that the Mediterranean climate would improve the grieving mother’s state of health. The uncertainty which prevailed in America in the period immediately preceding the Civil War (1861-1865) led John’s parents to have him educated in Europe. He was the second child of American surgeon Fitzwilliam Sargent (1820-1889) and of Mary Newbold Singer (1826-1906), scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family who had a passionate interest in art and literature. John Singer Sargent was born in Florence in 1856.