DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The art of J. S. Sargent, R. A., [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0028
yohn S. Sargent, R.A.
artistic character was very perceptibly shaped by experiments with which students are apt to express
the atmosphere of one of the greatest storehouses their impatience of restrictions and their ambition
of art treasures that exists in the world. The to run before they have discovered how to walk
exquisite charm of Botticelli, the splendour of without stumbling. He did not even try to be
Tintoretto, the imagination and accomplished original or to assert his own individuality in a
craft of Titian, and the noble achievements of premature effort after independence. On the
many other masters, were all to be studied there contrary, his reputation at the time was that of a
under advantageous conditions ; and that he had careful and industrious worker, obedient to the
profited by his experiences became evident enough precepts of the professor, and exact in his respect
when, at the age of nineteen, he came to Paris to for the system that was followed in the studio,
begin the systematic training that was to fit him Out of this obedience came the certainty and
for the profession he had decided to follow. He command of device that he wanted. He acquired
was already, even at the moment of entering the thoroughly the science of brushwork from a man
studio of M. Carolus-Duran, an artist of brilliant who had the whole thing at his fingers' ends,
promise, and quite in keeping with this promise and he secured just that intimacy with the
was the nature of the progress that he made under mechanical side of painting without which he
the direction of the great French painter. His would have been hampered ever after in his
work was emphatically that of a man who knew his struggle with those intricacies of execution that
own mind and had decided what course was best lie in wait to ensnare the student who has not
to follow in building up an artistic method that mastered his lesson.
would serve him well later on. Yet his submission to authority had by no means
Nothing showed his shrewdness and balance of the effect of making him simply an imitator and
judgment better than the steadiness with which he follower of M. Carolus-Duran, and certainly it did
applied himself to learning all that his master had not perceptibly delay the growth of that personal
to teach him. He wasted no time in those futile quality which has now become so evident in his
THE MISSES VICKERS
BY JOHN S. SAROKNT, R.A.
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artistic character was very perceptibly shaped by experiments with which students are apt to express
the atmosphere of one of the greatest storehouses their impatience of restrictions and their ambition
of art treasures that exists in the world. The to run before they have discovered how to walk
exquisite charm of Botticelli, the splendour of without stumbling. He did not even try to be
Tintoretto, the imagination and accomplished original or to assert his own individuality in a
craft of Titian, and the noble achievements of premature effort after independence. On the
many other masters, were all to be studied there contrary, his reputation at the time was that of a
under advantageous conditions ; and that he had careful and industrious worker, obedient to the
profited by his experiences became evident enough precepts of the professor, and exact in his respect
when, at the age of nineteen, he came to Paris to for the system that was followed in the studio,
begin the systematic training that was to fit him Out of this obedience came the certainty and
for the profession he had decided to follow. He command of device that he wanted. He acquired
was already, even at the moment of entering the thoroughly the science of brushwork from a man
studio of M. Carolus-Duran, an artist of brilliant who had the whole thing at his fingers' ends,
promise, and quite in keeping with this promise and he secured just that intimacy with the
was the nature of the progress that he made under mechanical side of painting without which he
the direction of the great French painter. His would have been hampered ever after in his
work was emphatically that of a man who knew his struggle with those intricacies of execution that
own mind and had decided what course was best lie in wait to ensnare the student who has not
to follow in building up an artistic method that mastered his lesson.
would serve him well later on. Yet his submission to authority had by no means
Nothing showed his shrewdness and balance of the effect of making him simply an imitator and
judgment better than the steadiness with which he follower of M. Carolus-Duran, and certainly it did
applied himself to learning all that his master had not perceptibly delay the growth of that personal
to teach him. He wasted no time in those futile quality which has now become so evident in his
THE MISSES VICKERS
BY JOHN S. SAROKNT, R.A.
•5