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James Sant CVO, RA (1820–1916) was a British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of children and artistic exploration of the symbolism of childhood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/james-sant,-c.v.o.,-r.a.-1820-1916-35-c-a2ie9gkr9g )〕 He was a member of the Royal Academy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp03977/james-sant?tab=biography )〕 His brother George and sister Sarah were also artists. ==Biography== Sant was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, on 23rd April 1820. He was taught first by the watercolourist John Varley, then by Augustus Wall Callcott,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/James-Sant-124664.htm )〕 then from the age of twenty was taught by the schools of the Royal Academy. He lived to the age of 96 and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery as well as producing nearly three hundred canvases for exhibition at the Academy, an unusually large number, from 1840 through to 1915. In 1851 he married Elizabeth (Eliza) Thomson, daughter of Dr R.M.M. Thomson, a surgeon and member of the Agri Horticultural Society of India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw146334/James-Sant-Eliza-Sant-ne-Thomson?LinkID=mp03977&role=sit&rNo=5 )〕 His 1853 picture of the infant Samuel was his first popular success, and engravings of this and of Little Red Riding Hood and The Soul’s Awakening sold in great numbers. In 1861, his portraits of friends and relatives of Frances, Lady Waldegrave were exhibited by Ernest Gambart at his Gallery in Pall Mall. This enhanced his reputation and he was elected ARA, and later RA; in 1871 he was appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary (official portraitist) to Queen Victoria, having become known for his portraits of the royal children and in particular his 1870 portrait of Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice. Sant is best known for his portraits of children; he was 'the emperor of children,' in the words of the Athenaeum (magazine). Nevertheless many of his pictures were landscapes and particularly gardens; he also painted seascapes, landscapes with animals, and other subjects including the Wish Tower, a Martello Tower at Eastbourne. His later pictures are freer in style and some have a visionary or mannerist quality; his landscapes could include figures with blank or distorted features or simple silhouettes such as the nun in Convent Walls (1910). He continued painting into old age; All My Fancy! (1910), an Italian landscape with villa and hills, he painted in bed from memory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/sant_artist/21781171536/in/album-72157658103176678/ )〕 He became a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1914 and resigned from the RA in the same year to "make room for younger men." He died in Lancaster Gate, London, on 12 July 1916. His work can be found at the Tate Gallery and at the National Portrait Gallery. His sister Sarah Sherwood Clarke was also an accomplished artist, but all that is presently known of her work is a collection of 48 different views of Scotland from 1854;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/sant_artist/albums/72157656178949004 )〕 these were exhibited for the first time at the "Watercolours & Works on Paper Fair" in London in February 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.artslant.com/lon/events/show/88771-watercolours-works-on-paper )〕 She married Frederick Clarke, Superintendent and later Secretary of the London and South Western Railway. His brother George Sant RBA (Royal Society of British Artists)(1821–1877) was a landscape painter and the two brothers occasionally collaborated on paintings. Both James and George Sant were among the notable artist acquaintances of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll); James Sant, his daughter Sarah Fanny〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personextended.php?linkid=mp03977&tab=iconography#h2 )〕 and son Jemmy were the subjects of photographic studies by Dodgson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/355784439288412485/ )〕 ==Gallery== File:James Sant Selbstporträt 1844.jpg|''Self Portrait'' File:Sant-Thorn.jpg|''A Thorn Amidst the Roses'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Sant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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