Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

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

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

Venice’s Accademia owns the most enigmatic ... in a sale negotiated by John Singer Sargent, in 1924 — it is Michelangelo’s most beautiful anatomical drawing, spontaneous, forceful, grandly ...

the historian Henry Adams and the painter John Singer Sargent. Indeed, her story reads like the plot outline of one of James’s novels in which new-world idealism is often compromised by the old ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. John Singer Sargent, “Madame X” (1883–84), oil paint on canvas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© The ...

Much of the magic of a John Singer Sargent painting resides in the subject’s clothing. From aristocrats in extravagant ruffles to actors swathed in glittering beading, the 19th-century artist ...

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 ...

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 great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...