Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"Theodore Roosevelt"

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

Title: Theodore Roosevelt

Object Type: Painting

Date: 1903

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 1,476.50 mm (58.13 in); Width: 1,016 mm (40 in)

Collection: The White House, Washington D.C. USA

Current Location: Level State Floor, East Room

Object History: Commissioned by the U.S. government

John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

He was born in Florence to American parents, and trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe. He enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter. An early submission to the Paris Salon in the 1880s, his Portrait of Madame X, was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter in Paris, but instead resulted in scandal. During the next year following the scandal, Sargent departed for England where he continued a successful career as a portrait artist.

From the beginning, Sargent's work is characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush, which in later years inspired admiration as well as criticism for a supposed superficiality.

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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