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.

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer Sargent ... and features his famous painting “Madame X,” a portrait of the Parisian socialite ...

John Singer Sargent is a great artist ... but also great as in worthy of a spot on art’s Olympus. Yes, he’s famous for portraits, many of British aristocrats, and we all know the saying ...

To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent, English Heritage has put on a show of 18 portraits of American heiresses that places their lives and notable achievements at ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...