John singer sargent gay

His secret life started cracking when dozens of intimate, sensual, voyeuristic, and openly homoerotic male nude drawings surfaced after his death. However, the first reference to his possible homosexuality didn’t appear in print until

John Singer Sargent (–) was an American painter, born in Florence, Italy, and trained in Paris, who lived mainly in England from onwards, with studios in Tite Street Chelsea and Fulham Road. Sargent was considered the leading portrait painter of his generation.