Sargent
Sargent names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sargent JOHN SINGER, an American artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN SINGER, an American artist; born in Florence, Italy, in 1856; studied art under Carolus Duran; received a second-class medal at the Paris Salon in 1881; took a medal of honor at the Paris Exposition in 1889; and was elected an academician of the Royal and of the Academy, England, in 1 1897, National Academy of Design in New York in 1897. His works include the figure pieces: "Fishing for Oysters at Cancale"; "Neapolitan Children Bathing," and "El Jaleso"; the portraits: "Doctor Pozzi"; "Portrait of a Young Lady"; "Madam G."; "Henry Marquand"; and numerous sketches, ideal figures, etc., portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, and other eminent Americans. His mural decorations are notable, especially those in the Public Library of Boston. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sargent CHARLES SPRAGUE, an American arboriculturist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES SPRAGUE, an American arboriculturist, born in Boston in 1841. He graduated from Harvard in 1862. He served during the Civil War, and in 1872 became professor of horticulture at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. In 1873 he was director of the arboretum, and from 1879 was professor of arboriculture at Harvard. He was chairman of the commission for the preservation of the Adirondack forests, in 1885, and also acted as chairman of the commission appointed by the National Academy of Sciences for the establishment of a forest policy for the United States. He was an officer and member of many foreign and American societies and wrote: "The Woods of the United States"; "The Forest Flora of Japan"; "Manual of the Trees of North America' (1905); and many reports.
Sargent DUDLEY ALLEN, an American physical director
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DUDLEY ALLEN, an American physical director, born at Belfast, Me., in 1849. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1875 and from the medical department of Yale in 1878. From 1879 he was director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard. From 1881 to 1916 he was director of the Normal School of Physical Training, Cambridge, Mass., and from the latter year was president of the Sargent School for Physical Education. He was the inventor of many pieces of modern gymnasium apparatus. He wrote "Health, Strength and Power" (1904).
Sargent EPES, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EPES, an American author; born in Gloucester, Mass., Sept. 27, 1813. His works include: "Change Makes Change," a comedy; "The Priestess," a tragedy; "Wealth and Worth" (1840), a novel; "Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition" (1863); "Life of Henry Clay." "Songs of the Sea" and "A Life on the Ocean Wave" are the most popular of his verses. His "Cyclopædia of English and American Poetry" was published in 1883. He died in Boston, Dec. 31, 1880.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All four men were still living or recently gone when Collier's wrote in 1921, and the entries stop short of their ends: John Singer Sargent died in London in 1925, with his last Boston murals — the Museum of Fine Arts rotunda — finished only at his death; Dudley Allen Sargent died in 1924 and the Sargent School he had just become president of was absorbed by Boston University, where it survives as Sargent College; Charles Sprague Sargent directed the Arnold Arboretum until his death in 1927, having run it for some fifty-four years, and his "Manual of the Trees of North America" is still consulted. The painter's standing has swung furthest. Dismissed for decades after 1925 as a mere flatterer of the rich, he was restored by large retrospectives in the 1980s and after, and the portrait Collier's lists blandly as "Madam G." is now world-famous as "Madame X" in the Metropolitan Museum. Epes Sargent, by contrast, has faded almost completely, though his lyric "A Life on the Ocean Wave" lives on as the march of Britain's Royal Marines.
Written for this edition, 2026.