Margaret Holland Sargent

Margaret Holland Sargent (born December 30, 1927), also known as Meg Sargent, is an American portrait artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has painted over three hundred oil portraits, including portraits of Tennessee Williams, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher.

Background Sargent's father, Cecil Holland, was a character actor and theatrical makeup artist. He has been cited as influential on her career. Sargent traveled extensively as an adult with her husband, a career military officer. She studied acting and costume design at the University of California at Los Angeles and is a member of Kappa Delta sorority.

Herbert Abrams introduced Sargent to oil painting in the 1960s and she continued to study with John Howard Sanden in the 1970s at the Art Students League of New York.

Sargent has frequently painted portraits of officers from the U.S. military, such as Alexander Haig, James Stockdale She is known for painting many of the first women officers in the United States military, including Kristin Baker (first Captain at West Point), first woman graduate from West Point (Andrea Hollen), She painted Mary Maxwell Gates' portrait. Her artwork of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt was used as cover art for Delphine Haley's book, Dorothy Stimson Bullitt: An Uncommon Life.

Sargent was the first female member of the Salmagundi Club, the American Portrait Society, and the Council of Leading American Portrait Painters.

Professional organizations American Portrait Society The American Society of Portrait Artists Council of Leading American Portrait Painters Painters Club of New York Salmagundi Club