John Singer Sargent

 “A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.