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So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

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Quote Author: John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 - April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.

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