Happy Birthday to John Singer Sargent

Help us celebrate the birthday of this great portrait painter, who lived from 1856 to 1925.

Enjoy Director Elizabeth Broun's engaging insights about Sargent's beautiful portrait of Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler.

Source: Elizabeth Broun. "Director's Choice Tour" from the CD-ROM National Museum of American Art (Washington D.C. and New York: National Museum of American Art and MacMillan Digital, USA, 1996).

Pictured: John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler,1893, oil, 49 3/8 x 40 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman.