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

John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in ... writers like Henry James; and artists like Monet, Renoir, and Rodin. Portraits of and by many of those very figures are on view in Sargent ...

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

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

Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...

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

(Courtesy Lisa Abitbol and Macmillan Publishers) In “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World,” Fisher provides a comprehensive and engaging biography of the artist, from his ...

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 ...

So, thank you, John Singer Sargent. You’ll never meet me, but when I look at the world through your eyes, it’s almost like I know you. —When she’s not fangirling over her favorite artists ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... reintroduces a familiar artist as a gifted naif, hungrily ...