It stands out for its sitter’s striking features, which are enhanced by the black and white palette. Stylistically, the work has been linked to the influence of Manet, who Sargent greatly admired.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a ...

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer Sargent, a leading portraitist of his time. The show, “Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits ...

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

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The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives. One hundred years after John ...