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

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers” is stuffed with so much information that, like the Wertheimer family tree, it spreads with a sort of blind, vegetal energy and frequently loses focus.

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

What We’re Reading Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. “Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Jean Strouse’s new book about ...

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925 ... parents who left Philadelphia for Europe, Sargent came from a close-knit family. They frequented museums, libraries, and notable ...

In “Family Romance,” Jean Strouse conjures the singular relations between the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and the Wertheimers, a prominent Jewish family whose commissions ...

John Singer Sargent, the renowned American expatriate painter, is being celebrated at The Met Fifth Avenue 100 years after ...

In “Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers,” Jean Strouse delicately and thoroughly traces one such exchange. Beginning in 1897, the virtuosic Sargent, the premier society ...

Now, Ormond is turning his attentions to Emily Sargent, researching her heretofore unsung life through the correspondence of her family and friends, as well as through existing John Singer Sargent ...

FAMILY ROMANCE: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, by Jean Strouse When London’s National Gallery exhibited nine portraits by John Singer Sargent in 1923, a magazine ran a cartoon of ...