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

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An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

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

Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. In the ensuing decade, he would not only ...

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston contemplates John Singer Sargent's painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A massive masterpiece by famed painter John ...

and Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that ...

The Des Moines season also featured a world première: Damien Geter’s “American Apollo,” about John Singer Sargent’s putative affair with Thomas Eugene McKeller, the statuesque Black ...