The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...

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

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

There was a sketchbook by the family’s mother, Mary Newbold Sargent (née Singer), plus a selection of watercolors that ... “But the family only sent John to art school. They invested in ...

John Sargent is the only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square ...

When you look at these paintings, you feel as if they are looking back. As a portraitist, John Singer Sargent not only captured his subjects’ appearances, he also captured who they really were ...

"Certainly he found great pleasure and security in the companionship of his sisters and nieces....But much of the 'evidence' of Sargent's sexual interests lies in his drawings and watercolors rather ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent ... society portraits or watercolor landscapes, but “Sargent in Fashion” — created ...

As a new exhibition of work by the painter John Singer Sargent opens in Boston ... one of 12 portraits of the family painted by Sargent, the artist's largest private commission).

Six watercolors that are part of a show of John Singer Sargent paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have special meaning to John F. Kennedy’s family. “John Singer Sargent Watercolors ...

Much of the magic of a John Singer Sargent painting resides in the subject’s clothing. From aristocrats in extravagant ruffles to actors swathed in glittering beading, the 19th-century artist ...