The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that ...

Magnificent portraits by John Singer Sargent depict the many American heiresses that married into British aristocracy in a ...

To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent ... tells The Art Newspaper: “It is easy to simply view the [dollar princesses] as merely sitters to Sargent but here ...

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 ...

In Paris, after a few years of study with the leading portrait painter of the era, Carolus-Duran, and intermittent attendance ...

After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...

“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing ... to stoke anticipation for this famous painting of the precariously dressed Parisian socialite ...

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.

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. They are ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the renowned American expatriate painter, is being celebrated at The Met Fifth Avenue 100 ...