When in Venice, the American painter John Singer Sargent (currently the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain) was not content merely to work en plein air, preferring instead to paint en ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...

As soon as the name John Singer Sargent is mentioned ... Sargent painted her while she was staying in Venice just a few years before he would swear off portraits in 1907. Though Lady Helen ...

By Karen Rosenberg The painter John Singer Sargent has sometimes been dismissed ... The curator had spent nearly seven months preparing the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition before she died.

An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist in the City of Light. The American Art Fair returns to the historic ...

Acclaimed and handsomely compensated by the Edwardian upper classes for brilliant portraits that captured their privileged lifestyle, John Singer Sargent ... Capri, Venice, New York, Boston ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer ... views of Venice and more intimate, sketchier portraits of friends and acquaintances, Sargent is more ...