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John Singer Sargent: General Officers of World War I  wikidata:Q16992699 reasonator:Q16992699
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John Singer Sargent  (1856–1925)  wikidata:Q155626 s:en:Author:John Singer Sargent q:en:John Singer Sargent
 
John Singer Sargent
Description American painter, architectural draftsperson and architect
Date of birth/death 12 January 1856 Edit this at Wikidata 15 April 1925 / 14 April 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence London
Work location
Paris, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America, Italy
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artist QS:P170,Q155626
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
General Officers of World War I
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre group portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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Date 1922
date QS:P571,+1922-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 299.7 × 528.3 cm (9.8 × 17.3 ft)
National Portrait Gallery
Current location
London
Accession number
NPG 1954
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: This is one of the portraits commissioned by the financier Sir Abraham Bailey to commemorate the role of the army, the navy and politicians in bringing the First World War to a close. Sargent, who initially declined the commission, began work on the military group portrait on his return from America in August 1920. He found the commission particularly difficult, writing to Sir James Guthrie (who was working on the politicians portrait) in September of that year: 'But I am still merely collecting material and have not yet evolved any scheme of the picture as a whole. I am handicapped by the idea that they never could have been altogether in any sort of interesting background and reduced to painting them all standing up in a vacuum'.
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National Portrait Gallery: NPG 1954

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