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 ...

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 ...

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

John Singer Sargent (b. 1856). At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Great Works, In Focus A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United ...

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 ...

There are only a few days left to experience the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which means ...

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Hugh Hammersley (1892). Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Campbell, in memory of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1998.

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 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 ...

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 ...