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

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An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that ...

Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He ...

Magnificent portraits by John Singer Sargent depict the many American heiresses that married into British aristocracy in a ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...

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 ...