Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Sargent was one of the most in-demand portrait artists of the era, flooded with commissions by the rich and fashionable in the US and abroad.

He was a superstar, and he was sick of it.

Sargent grew tired of catering to high-society demands. He felt portrait work was limiting his creativity.

So eventually, by 1907, he’d had enough. He announced he was “shutting up shop in the portrait line” and began traveling the world to paint landscapes instead. #ArtUncovered