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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 ...
Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...
a sprawling estate-turned-museum in London. 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 ...
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.
A new exhibition dedicated to the celebrated society painter at London’s Kenwood House puts the spotlight on this phenomenon. “Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits,” on view through ...
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 rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – ...
"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...