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

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

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

Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. In the ensuing decade, he would not only ...

But the damage had been done. Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for ...

and Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...