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

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

It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

There was a sketchbook by the family’s mother, Mary Newbold Sargent (née Singer), plus a selection of watercolors that ... “But the family only sent John to art school. They invested in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent ... society portraits or watercolor landscapes, but “Sargent in Fashion” — created ...

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925 ... One hundred and forty of Sargent’s Spanish-themed oils, watercolors, drawings, and photographs, including sketches of saints ...

As a new exhibition of work by the painter John Singer Sargent opens in Boston ... one of 12 portraits of the family painted by Sargent, the artist's largest private commission).