In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Whitelaw Reid ... which includes this Sargent portrait, to be donated to the nation. Thanks to her generosity, the works are kept on permanent public display ...

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

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

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She held her seat of Plymouth Sutton for 25 years. John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Nancy Astor, who became the first sitting female Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons ...

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

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer Sargent ... National Portrait Gallery, London Astor is featured twice in the exhibition: once ...

John Singer Sargent is a great artist. Great not only as in eye-catching, dazzling, eminent, and profound, but also great as in worthy of a spot on art’s Olympus. Yes, he’s famous for ...

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 ...

The four-part docuseries This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (available on Netflix!) tells the story of the notorious event that took place over 30 years ago in the middle of the night on ...

The landmark exhibition at the English Heritage mansion marks the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death and brings together 18 of his major works for the first time. They depict some of ...