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 ...

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

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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 ...

“Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits,” on view through October 5, not only brings our attention to some of the artist’s most magnificent masterpieces, it also lifts the veil on his subject ...

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer Sargent, a leading portraitist of his time. The show, “Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits ...

What on Earth Is Wrong with 60 Minutes? Summers Before Screens A Visit to Winterthur, the House Museum Par Excellence Sargent and Paris at the Met delivers a cultural polyglot with a French soul.

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 ...

Some married for love, and some against their will - now the portraits of American heiresses ... mansion marks the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death and brings together 18 of his ...