Breakfast in the Loggia by John Singer Sargent Cushion

Breakfast in the Loggia (1910) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art architectural painting. Lady Richmond (wife of Sir William Blake Richmond) and Jane de Glehn and eating breakfast but could very well be a luncheon. The painting is from the patio of the Villa Torre Galli at Scandicci on the outskirts of Florence, where Sargent stayed with a party of friends during the autumn of 1910. About the artist: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era. Sargent is usually not thought of as an Impressionism painter, but he sometimes used impressionistic techniques to great effect with his own version of the impressionist style.