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He was born at Gloucester, Massachussets, United States, and baptized on November 25, 1770. Son of Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent and brother of Lucius Manlius Sargent, he was a great-grandson of William Sargent who received a grant of land at Gloucester in 1678. His father was a prosperous and public-spirited merchant.
Henry was sent as a young boy to Dummer Academy, South Byfield, and then, the family having moved to Boston, he continued his studies under local teachers. After a period in the counting house of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, he continued his commercial apprenticeship with his father, but suddenly, as he was attaining his majority, without having previously shown special partiality for the arts of design, he determined to become an artist. In 1793 Sargent went to London, where he studied with Benjamin West and had courteous treatment from John Singleton Copley.
He returned to Boston in 1799. Accordingly, in that same year he took a commission in the national army then being raised under command of Alexander Hamilton. This service was brief, but it gave Sargent a taste for military life which motivated his long connection with the Massachusetts militia.
In or shortly after 1799 he joined the Boston Light Infantry, which had been organized the year before and of which his brother, Daniel Sargent, was captain. Records of the adjutant-general's office in the Massachusetts State House show that Henry Sargent became first lieutenant of this company Oct. 1, 1804, and captain, Mar. 31, 1807.
During the War of 1812 his company aided in the fortification of Fort Strong, and on May 31, 1815, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the governor, with the rank of colonel. In 1812, 1815, 1816, and 1817 he was a member of the state Senate.
In the course of the following decade, growing deafness caused him gradually to withdraw from public services and to devote himself entirely to his painting and to mechanical inventions, in which latter field he achieved no great celebrity. His painting was that of a diligent and gifted artist whose talent fell short of genius. His portraits were less masterful than those of his fellow townsman, Gilbert Stuart, with whom he was personally intimate.
He had capacity for doing canvases that required sustained effort. The well-known "Landing of the Pilgrims, " at Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, attributed to him. His altar painting, "The Christ Crucified, " which Sargent made for the Church of the Holy Cross, Boston, won contemporary favor. The full-length portrait of Peter Faneuil, in Faneuil Hall, if by Sargent, to whom it is ascribed, must be a copy after John Smibert. Sargent's self-portrait is at the Boston Museum; his likenesses of Jeremy Belknap, D. D. , and John Clarke, D. D. , both friends of his parents, are at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
He was known as the painter of two conversation pieces, The Dinner Party (ca. 1821) and The Tea Party (ca. 1824), owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These have something of the exquisiteness of the so-called Little Dutchmen and they give fascinating glimpses of social life in Boston homes of the early 19th century. His other well-known works: Landing of the Pilgrims, The Christ Crucified, portrait of Peter Faneuil. He was elected in 1845 the president of the newly organized Artists' Association of Boston.
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He was elected in 1840 an honorary member of the National Academy of Design and in 1845.
Of the tall, thin, Yankee build, he was a handsome officer and an efficient drill master.
He had married, Apr. 2, 1807, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles, of Boston, and they had two daughters who died in infancy and two sons, one of whom was Henry Winthrop Sargent.
