The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...

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

Sargent had been at work on this portrait since 1882, when he approached Gautreau with a typically canny offer to paint her portrait. For the previous few years, he had been receiving and executing ...

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 ... beautiful women and exoticism. But in his early genre ...

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

In “Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas ... Six watercolors that are part of a show of John Singer Sargent paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have special meaning ...

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

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 ...

John Singer Sargent was the pre-eminent society portraitist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, said Andrew Pulver on Air Mail. Indeed, "sitting for – and paying for – a portrait by ...

John Singer Sargent’s 1884 portrait of Virginie Avegno Gautreau ... world to see was a different matter altogether. Fashionable women mocked Sargent’s accurate rendition of his subject ...