The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

But despite John Singer Sargent’s renown during his lifetime—his last show, just a year before his death, attracted 60,000 people in just 44 days—the artist fell out of favor in the decades ...

When you look at these paintings, you feel as if they are looking back. As a portraitist, John Singer Sargent not only captured his subjects’ appearances, he also captured who they really were ...

John Singer Sargent, “Madame X” (1883–84), oil paint on canvas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; all images courtesy Tate) ...

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 ...