John Singer Sargent Wall Art

What's in the collection

Two portraits and two escapes from portraiture. The Wyndham Sisters banks three women in white against a near-black drawing room, and Miss Grace Woodhouse turns in a pale gown with a coral wrap trailing behind her. Then the holidays: a painter at work beside the fountain at the Villa Torlonia in Frascati, and a watercolour of Santa Maria della Salute seen steeply from a gondola. All four sit inside impressionist wall art and the wider fine art prints range.

One house style

Loose brushwork and a lot of white are the constants, so these read as light pictures even when the ground is dark. The two portraits want scale — 24\" x 36\" or larger, with space around them — while the Venice watercolour is happy small and looks best in a plain white frame. Gold and espresso frames suit the period; black suits the interiors. For the generation that followed him, see post impressionist wall art.

Sizes, paper and framing

Every design is offered on archival matte paper in nine sizes from 8\" x 12\" to 30\" x 40\", plus A4-A1 for European frames, and on matte canvas either stretched on a wooden bar or set in a solid wood floating frame in white, black, espresso or natural. Printed with pigment-based archival inks, rated to resist fading for decades indoors.

Questions about John Singer Sargent wall art

Does the watercolour print differently from the oils?

It is printed on the same archival matte paper, which suits watercolour — the bare-paper whites stay as paper rather than turning glossy.

What size for a portrait above a sofa?

24\" x 36\" as a minimum. The wall art size guide shows the proportions against standard furniture.