1856-1925. US portrait painter. Born in
Florence of American parents, he studied
there and in Paris, then settled in London
around 1885. He was a fashionable and
prolific painter. Sargent left Paris after a
scandal concerning his decollete portrait
Madame Gautreau 1884. Later subjects included
the actress Ellen Terry, President Theodore
Roosevelt, and the writer Robert Louis
Stevenson. He also painted watercolour
landscapes and murals.