Sargent (John Singer) is born in Florence, Italy.

John Singer Sargent is raised in Italy, studies at the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts in Paris, holds his first solo exhibition in Boston in 1880,* moves to  England in 1886, then returns to Boston in 1887. He stays at the Copley Plaza Hotel, rents or borrows studio space, and begins painting what he calls “paughtraits” of Boston Brahmins that earn him both fame and fortune. Sargent subsequently turns to landscapes, water colors, and murals, including those installed at the Boston Public Library. He dies in London on April 14, 1925, the night before he was to sail for Boston to supervise installation of his murals at the Museum of Fine Arts, and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England.