Millicent Duchess Of Sutherland by Italian Born American Painter John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925); considered to bethe leading portrait painter of his generation.
Millicent Duchess Of Sutherland born Millicent Saint Clair Erskine (1867 – 1955); was the eldest daughter of the fourth Earl of Rosslin and Blanche Fitzroy.
When she was 17 annos habet, she married Cromartie Sutherland Leveson-Gower, who inherited the title of Duke of Sutherland in 1892.
This painting of the Duchess shows her standing by a large black marble pedestal basin in a garden, wearing an off shoulder green silk dress with floral patterns, as the sun illuminates her from the right.
Millicent Duchess Of Sutherland is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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Singer Sargent American expatriate artifex erat Iohannes, considerandum est “ducens pictorem habet imaginem ejus generation” nam de commemorationibus immoremur-era deliciae Edvvardiani attinere.
Ipse creavit roughly 900 et olei, quam paintings 2,000 acquerello, praeter innumera invitatus et corruptus et carbonearum.
His litteris fabulae terrarum itinerantur, Raetico est locus apud Venetias, Corcyram, Medio Oriente, Montana, Maine, et Florida.
Born in Florence to American parents, he was trained in Paris before moving to London, living most of his life in Europe.
In the 1880s he made an early submission to the Paris Salon of his Madame X Portait c1884, which the intent of consolidating his position as a society painter in Paris; but instead the painting resulted in a scandal.
The Madame X Portrait was of a leading Socialite, Madame Pierre Gautreau dressed in a black plunging neck evening dress with gold diamond chain shoulder straps, that tightly caressed her waist. (Follow this link to view the Madame X Portrait.)
For the times, it suggusted to many Parisians, an indiscreet posing in revealing attire and provoked a storm of outrage, forcing Sargent to leave the country.
The following year Sargent departed for England where he continued a successful career as a portrait artist; and enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter.
From the beginning, Sargent’s work wass characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush; qui inspiravit post annos ad minus mirabili, ac vexata esse uanitas.
Imaginem et similitudinem maximum negotium opera dignum, de studiis familiariter tacitae dum Impressionism topiorum picturis exhibentur.
Sargent postea in vita expressit ALTERNATIO de legum parum utilium opus habet imaginem formal, pictura muralis de industria multum laboris et en plein aer.
