John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

It’s a beautifully written book about the connections between the painter John Singer Sargent and ... first commissioned ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the sinuous contours of whom have been in the museum’s permanent collection ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be opening their latest exhibition on Sunday entitled Sargent & Paris.

John Singer Sargent ... been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished,” wrote one critic in a 1925 obituary. But before he became the hottest portrait painter in France ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in collaboration with Paris's Musée d'Orsay, is dedicating until August 3 to American ...

John Singer Sargent is the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the ...