With a cameo on The Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent is in once again in the spotlight for his boundary-pushing portraits and ...

The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days’ talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the immediate family of a ...

In “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World,” Fisher provides a comprehensive and engaging biography of the artist, from his peripatetic youth traveling throughout Europe to his ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive ...

Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Feb.11-May 14) from the National Gallery in Washington, is a ...

John Singer Sargent is a great artist. Great not only as in eye-catching, dazzling, eminent, and profound, but also great as in worthy of a spot on art’s Olympus.

From Carolus-Duran, Sargent learned the techniques that characterize his art: attentive to surfaces rather than mass, alert to the momentary effects of light on form. His faces glow, his gowns ...

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...

Sargent painted “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” when he was 26. He never topped it. The greatest painting ever produced by an American was made in 1882 by a 26-year-old living in Paris ...