As a new exhibition of work by the painter John Singer Sargent opens in Boston, Cath Pound explores how his portrait of Ena Wertheimer pushed boundaries. The painter John Singer Sargent and one of ...

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

Too much in the sense that “Family Romance: John Singer Sargent ... private patrons. Asher Wertheimer, an art dealer, first ...

By Karen Rosenberg The painter John Singer Sargent has ... certainly not a typical wedding portrait. Image Sargent’s “Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie,” 1904, a free-spirited ...

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

In “Family Romance: John ... Sargent, the premier society portraitist of his time, painted the large family of the art broker Asher Wertheimer. The commission resulted in twelve paintings ...