Sargent, born to American parents in Italy, resided most of his life in England. Elected Royal Academician as a portrait painter, Sargent also excelled in watercolors, of which he practiced exclusively on his annual vacations
in Venice from 1886.
"Sargent drew and painted, the accidental things that caught his eye, the queer and irregular shapes of dark gondolas on the canals . . . the flash of light on the facades of palaces and the reflections on the glittering
water."-Martin Hardie, 1930
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