John Singer Sargent was one of the greatest painters of all time. The artist’s technical skill and extraordinary approach to painting light and shadow influenced entire generations of portraitists that followed him. So it may be hard to imagine that anyone can match his legendary style. But Washington, D.C. artist David Rashid Ibata takes on the challenge. Watch David expertly copy Sargent’s portrait "Ellen Peabody Endicott” and discover what an artist of today can gain from studying the signatu

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. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. | John Singer Sargent