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

John Singer Sargent was the pre ... that the pictures themselves are often "as glib as Sargent could be when churning them out". His charcoal drawings "make every sitter look roughly the same ...

Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...