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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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).

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

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 ...