Born in Florence, Italy in 1856 to an expat Philadelphia eye surgeon, John Singer Sargent became the most famous portrait painter of his generation. Moving from Paris to London in 1886, Sargent took a flat opposite Oscar Wilde's in Chelsea, residing there until his death in 1925.
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| Portrait of Madame X, 1884 |
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| Dr. Pozzi, a Parisian gynecologist, 1881 |
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| US President Woodrow Wilson, 1917 |
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| Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885 |
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