John Singer Sargent

Found this the other day while i WAS reading up on that turn of last century society portrait painter, John Singer Sragent. The man could paint like the old masters - he worked with brush and paint on raw canvas, no underpainting, no drawing, nothing.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...26tbs%3Disch:1

He painted this in 1918 or 1919 for the War Remembrance museum. It is now in the Imperial War Museum in London. It is a huge painting, 18 feet long, I think. I'm guessing he painted it from a photo, but he may have actually been there.

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