The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

This October in Boston, two exhibitions shine a light on the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling paintings have rendered him one of the greatest society portraitists of ...

It’s a beautifully written book about the connections between the painter John Singer Sargent and ... first commissioned ...

An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

At the Museum of Fine Arts, the frothy ‘Fashioned by Sargent’ explores’ the artist’s painterly gifts and surface obsessions. “Fashioned by Sargent,” the MFA’s frothy blockbuster of ...

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The Norton celebrated the gift of the painting by displaying it with Sargent’s portrait of Phipps Guest’s mother and son. That painting, Portrait of Mrs. Henry Phipps and her Grandson Winston ...

“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait ... beliefs and style. Sargent’s portrait, perhaps his most famous, drew a lot of negative reviews when it was unveiled in the ...

Sargent had been at work on this portrait since 1882, when he approached Gautreau with a typically canny offer to paint her portrait. For the previous few years, he had been receiving and executing ...