 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Sartain akagadzira studio muPhiladelphia muna 1875 kwaakagadzira mifananidzo nemifananidzo. Mukufamba kwebasa rake akaita makopi emifananidzo muSpanish neItaly galleries, mifananidzo, mifananidzo yemhando, uye aive mukadzi wekutanga kudzidzira hunyanzvi hwe mezzotint muUnited States neEurope. Pakati pemabasa ake paiva nezviratidziro zvenguva iyo yakaratidza vakadzi vanozviisa pasi vane maziso akaderera se Mukadzi weItaly uye The Reproof. Sartain akaratidzira mabasa ake mumaguta aiva kumahombekombe okumabvazuva kweUnited States uye ndiye chete mukadzi akahwina menduru yegoridhe paWorld Fair ya1876 muPhiladelphianokuda kweThe Reproof. Akakunda mubairo waMary Smith wemufananidzo wakanakisa nemukadzi pa1881 na1883 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts inoratidzira. Sartain akashanda somupepeti wemifananidzo wepepanhau Our Continent kubva muna 1881 kusvika muna 1883. Iye ipapo akanga ari mupepeti wemifananidzo we New England Bygones 1883 naEllen C. H. Rollins. Joseph M. Pennell akati Sartain akanga ari mukadzi bedzi akarovedzwa mupepeti wemifananidzo wandati ndamboziva. Sartain akaratidzira basa rake pa Palace of Fine Arts uye paPennsylvania Building ye 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition muChicago, Illinois. 