SARGENT
SARGENT
Military academy, 18S3, being promoted 2d lieu-
tenant "id U.S. cavalry, June 13, 1883, and served
on frontier duty until 18D8. except one year,
1886-^7, wlien lie was profes-sor of military science
at the Uuiversitv of Illinois. He w:ii) married,
Aug. 11,1880, to Alice
Carey, daughter of
Lindsay and Eliza-
beth (Miller) Apple-
gate of Ashland, Ore.
He served at Wash-
ington, D.C., May,
1898, in organizing
volunteers for the
Spanish- American
war; was appointed
colonel. Fiftli Volun-
teer infantry. May 20,
1898; organized the
regiment and arrived
at Santiago, Cuba,
Aug. 1^, and com-
manded the regiment there under Gen. Leonard
Wood until March 20, when he was ordered with
his regiment to command the district of Guan-
tanamo. He sailed from Guantanamo to the
United States the following May, and was
mustered out of service at Camp Meade, Pa., May
31. 1899. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel,
29th infantry. U.S. volunteers, July 5, 1899;
sailed with his regiment for Manila, Philippine
Islands. Oct. 5, 1899, arriving Nov. 2; participa-
ted in combats with insurgents on the island of
Luzon; commanded the attacking forces at the
battle of San Mateo, in which General Lawton was
killed, Dec. 19, 1899; was honorably discharged
from the volunteer service, May 10, 1901, and
promoted captain, 2d U.S. cavalry. March 2, 1899.
He is the author of: Napoleon Bonaparte's First
Campaign (1893), and The Campaign of Marengo
(1897 ). His works on Napoleon's campaigns gave
him high standing as an authority on military
strategy.
SARGENT, John Singer, artist, was born- in Florence. Italy, in 18.")G; son of Dr. Fitzwilliam
and (Newbold; Sargent. His father, a
well-known physician and surgeon of Boston, Mass. , was the author of several books on surgery, and his mother, a water-color artist of ability. He was educated in Italy and Germany; studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, and in 1874 entered the studio of Carolus- Duran of Paris, France, who was the subject of his first exhiljited portrait in the Salon of 1877. This p<jrtrait was soon followed by the two pic- tures: Ell Route pour la Peche and Smoke of Ambergris. In 1879 he traveled through Spain, where he became a devoted student of the art of Velasquez and conceived his El Jaleo, which im-
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mediately established his reputation as a master
of technique. On his return to Paris, he opened
a studio on the boulevard Berthier; exhibited a
full length portrait of a young woman in the
Salon of 1881, which placed him among the fore-
most portrait-painters
of the contemporary
world, and in 1884
removed to London,
where he continued
to exhibit annually
at the Royal Acad-
emy, his work being
distinguished by its
"cleverness of ex-
pression, amazing
vividness of insight
into character and
expert control over
points of craftsman-
ship." He visited the
United States in 1876,
1887 and 1889, painting in 1887 a famous por-
trait of Mrs. Henry Marquand, and again in 1895
and 1903, to hang his mural paintings in the
Boston Public library, having previously exhib-
ited them in the Royal Academy at London.
These canvases, some of them in the Byzantine
style, combining bas-belief and painting, repre-
sent "The Progress of Religion." Mr. Sargent
was made a member of the Society of American
Artists in 1880; an Associate National Acade-
mician in 1894, and an Academician in 1897, and
a member of the Societe Nationale de Beaux Arts.
A loan exhibition of his most notable portraits
since 1884, was held in Copley Hall, Boston. Mass.,
under the auspices of the Boston Art Students'
association, February-March, 1900. He also ex-
hibited at various times in the United States, at
Boston, New York city, Philadelphia, Pittsburg
and Chicago, and in England, at the New English
Art Club of London. His American portrait
subjects include: Mr. Burckhardt (1880); Mr.
Thornton K. Lothrop (1882); Mrs. Wilton Phipps
(1886); Mrs. Inches (1888); Mrs. R. H. Derby
(1889); Mrs. Kissam (1890); Thomas B. Reed
(1891); Mr.s. Manson (1891); Miss Helen Dunham
(1891-92); Henry Cabot Lodge;:\Irs. Carl Meyer
and her two children (1897); Calvin S. Brice
(1898); Mrs. Ralph Curtis (1898); William M.
Chase (1902), and President Theodore Roosevelt
(1903). Among his English subjects may be
mentioned: Laily Agnew: Lady Plaj-fair (1885);
The Hon. Laura Lister; Coventry Patmore, in
the National Portrait gallery of London; Mr.
Wertheimer (189S), in the same gallery; Francis
C. Penrose (1898). and Sir Thomas Sutherland
(1898). He also painted the portrait groups:
Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose; and Lady Echo, Mrs.
