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A New View of John Singer Sargent’s American Socialites
The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that ...
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John Singer Sargent and the American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Who Rewrote the Rules of Power
Magnificent portraits by John Singer Sargent depict the many American heiresses that married into British aristocracy in a ...
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John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’
The show at Kenwood House features 18 portraits of American heiresses who came over to the UK to marry into aristocracy—with ...
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World’s most scandalous painting returns to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The painting of a striking young woman in an alluring black dress ... “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where ...
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The education of John Singer Sargent
NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...
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The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
a woman who knows that her portrait is worth painting. This is what Sargent captured in his paintings: that beautiful particularness of each of us. John Singer Sargent, “Madame X (Virginie ...
The New Criterion3d
An artist of the portrait as a young man
In Paris, after a few years of study with the leading portrait painter of the era, Carolus-Duran, and intermittent attendance ...
Wall Street Journal17d
‘Sargent and Paris’ Review: At the Met, a Painter’s Brilliant Beginnings
It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic wrote at the time.