The painter John Singer Sargent and one of his sitters, Ena Wertheimer, were good friends. Their mutual rapport is evident in the striking portrait he painted of her in Cavalier fancy dress ...

Since John Singer Sargent and Henry Clay Frick were contemporaries with sympathetic tastes, moving in elite circles, it’s surprising that they never got together for a sitting. The Frick ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In ...

There have been countless retrospectives of portraitist John Singer Sargent, but now the 19th century painter is being shown in a brand new light.

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In ...

The greatest painting ever produced by an American was made in 1882 by a 26-year-old living in Paris. ... John Singer Sargent (b. 1856). At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

John Singer Sargent, “Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts” (1877), oil on canvas Indeed, it’s in painting people that Sargent really shines, and he makes them shine too.

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

He was only 18 years old in 1874, when he moved with his American expatriate family from Florence to Paris, intent on becoming an artist. It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent ...

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic.Born to American parents who'd become cosmopolitan wanderers, the painter was only 18 when he moved from ...