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Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...
They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer ... oil paintings and 10 charcoal drawings dated between 1884 and 1923. Sargent’s subjects ...
The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.
To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent ... tells The Art Newspaper: “It is easy to simply view the [dollar princesses] as merely sitters to Sargent but here ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.
Though Sargent painted very few portraits after 1907, he began making sensitive charcoal studies by choice. Both of these drawings, in which Lady Anne Innes-Ker meets the viewer with a serious and ...
"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris ... had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole ...
when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait at the Salon, then the world’s most influential summer art show. Sargent had every reason to feel ...
An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...