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

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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John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the sinuous contours of whom have been in the museum’s permanent collection ...

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 ...

explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884. Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris, but he had ambition, a keen social sense ...

“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama in a couture dress,” said Laura Taylor, Mark Arts ...

John Singer ... Sargent” exhibition. But Sargent has always been a bit too popular for his own good. It started with his contemporaries, who ceded that he had raw talent but critiqued his ...

Too much in the sense that “Family Romance: John Singer Sargent ... private patrons. Asher Wertheimer, an art dealer, first commissioned Sargent to make portraits of himself and his wife to ...

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 ...