"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...

The rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... for the show is his 1883-84 portrait “Madame X ...

John Singer Sargent ... been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished,” wrote one critic in a 1925 obituary. But before he became the hottest portrait painter in France ...

John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller ...

President Theodore Roosevelt was unpleased with ... Mr. Roosevelt eventually commissioned John Singer Sargent to paint his official portrait. President Lyndon B. Johnson turned down the official ...

In 1902, French artist Théobald Chartran was commissioned to produce a portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt ... opted for another portrait by John Sargent Singer.” Over half a century ...

a famed portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hung over my right shoulder. John Singer Sargent painted our 26th president with one hand on his left hip, the other on the newel-post of a White House ...