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

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NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. In the ensuing decade, he would not only ...

and Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that ...

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston contemplates John Singer Sargent's painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A massive masterpiece by famed painter John ...

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

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 ...