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Toby Beau. Toby Beau is an American band from Texas, formed in the early 1970s and perhaps best known for the 1978 hit single, "My Angel Baby". The band is still in existence today and continues to perform on the club circuit. The band's name was based from one of the last original wooden shrimp boats docked in the Gulf Coast community of Port ...
Rosina Ferrara. Charles Sprague Pearce, Study, Rosina, Capri, 1880. Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an Italian artist's model from the island of Capri, [ 1] who became the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. Captivated by her exotic beauty, a variety of 19th-century artists, including Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank ...
After Mrs. Hammersley's death in 1902, her husband kept the painting until 1923, when financial troubles compelled him to sell the work. At the suggestion of Sargent, it was purchased by Charles Deering (1852–1927), an American whose portrait Sargent had painted in Newport, Rhode Island in 1876, and who collected Sargent's works.
Padre Island is the largest of the Texas barrier islands and the world's longest barrier island. The island is located along Texas's southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is noted for its white sandy beaches. Meaning father in Spanish, it was named after Father José Nicolás Ballí (c.1770-1829), who owned the island and served as a ...
Self-portrait, 1906, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. [1] During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
Padre Sebastiano. Padre Sebastiano is a 1904–1906 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ 1] The painting depicts Father Sebastiano, an Italian priest whom the artist met in Giomein, a village in the Italian Alps. The subject had a serious interest in botany, hence the wild flowers.
The Met object ID: 12121. [ edit on Wikidata] Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) is an 1882 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [1] The subject of the painting, (Charlotte) Louise Burckhardt (1862—1892), [2] was the twenty-year-old daughter of a Swiss ...