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John Singer Sargent - On His Holidays, Norway [1901-02]
This work is a portrait of Alexander McCulloch (1887 - 1951). This portrait shows the young man, then a schoolboy at Winchester College, resting after salmon fishing in Norway. The summer holidays were a bad time for salmon fishing in Britain and Norway became more fashionable at the end of the 19th century. The descriptive power of Sargent's rapid and vigorous brushstrokes, which so enlivened his society portraits of the 1880s and 1890s, is very evident here. In this painting the boy's casual but thoughtful pose within a precisely worked out natural setting very much reflects the artists new and rather wider intentions as he began to move away from conventional portraiture.
[Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool - Oil on canvas, 137 x 244 cm]
John Singer Sargent - On His Holidays, Norway [1901-02]
This work is a portrait of Alexander McCulloch (1887 - 1951). This portrait shows the young man, then a schoolboy at Winchester College, resting after salmon fishing in Norway. The summer holidays were a bad time for salmon fishing in Britain and Norway became more fashionable at the end of the 19th century. The descriptive power of Sargent's rapid and vigorous brushstrokes, which so enlivened his society portraits of the 1880s and 1890s, is very evident here. In this painting the boy's casual but thoughtful pose within a precisely worked out natural setting very much reflects the artists new and rather wider intentions as he began to move away from conventional portraiture.
[Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool - Oil on canvas, 137 x 244 cm]