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

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 ...

John Singer Sargent is well known as perhaps the most famous portraitist of the late 19th and early 20th century, and a prolific master of watercolor who captured over 2,000 views of landscapes ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive ...

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) painted in a realistic style and refused to bow to the dictates of modern art, saying he didn’t believe that “these novelties” s ...

His name was John Singer Sargent. He was a young artist, preternaturally gifted, and already making his mark in the French capital. The subjects of his canvas were the four daughters of his ...

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 ...

This October in Boston, two exhibitions shine a light on the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling paintings have rendered him one of the greatest society portraitists of ...

By Karen Rosenberg The painter John Singer Sargent has sometimes been dismissed as an artist of flattery and frivolity — a portraitist-for-hire who catered to the vanities of his elite subjects ...