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John Singer Sargent painted the portrait of Sir George Lewis, a powerful solicitor of London, in 1896. The artist also portrayed Lady Lewis in the painting entitled Mrs. George Lewis (Elizabeth Eberstadt). This was a significant period for Sargent’s portrait production, as he became famous for this style of working and had many influential patrons, like Sir George Lewis.
The artist caught the attention of the critics early in his career and even achieved an Honorable Mention by the Paris Salon of 1879 for the portrait of his teacher Carolus-Duran. As a young man, Sargent flunked from school, but his parents encouraged him to learn from different environments, like art museums. He eventually became successful in various areas, like literature, music, and especially art, as well as learning multiple languages. Sargent was influenced by the past masters of painting, especially of the Baroque period. He traveled through Europe to study artists like El Greco and Diego Velazquez in depth.
While in Paris, Duran taught Sargent how to bend the strict classic rules of the academies and trust in his intuition. This opened a new horizon for the artist, and he began to experiment with a more modern approach to painting. After developing a friendship with Claude Oscar Monet, he learned to work en plein air – an Impressionistic approach to landscape painting. Even though the painter was taking a new direction in his work, Sargent continued painting many commissioned oil portraits all over Europe and the United States of America. After the turn of the century, the artist was tired of dedicating all of his productive time for commissioned portraits and decided to head in a different direction in his career.
The painting Sir George Lewis shows a man in a dominant posture, looking straight into the viewer’s eyes. With a dark background, Sargent used a dramatic lighting – a Baroque influence. The sitter has gray hair and wears an expensive suit with a red detail and a gold pin in the middle, as well as a luxurious fur coat. The attention to detail is impressive, and the textures were painted in a realistic manner. The background is simple and has no complementing elements, highlighting the importance of the sitter. Sargent achieved a beautiful harmony when blending modern and traditional painting, something that pleased the critic of the time.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Sir George Lewis, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Sir George Lewis that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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