"Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision)."
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In K.C. Charteris John Sargent, C. Scribener's Sons, p.123
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John Singer Sargent
1856 – 1925
John Singer Sargent (12 January 1856– 14 April 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. He was an American expatriate who lived most of his life in Europe.
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