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

European-American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is remembered for his impressive, large-scale portraits of British, French, and American socialites, intellectuals, politicians, and other ...

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 ...

John Singer Sargent, ‘Dr. Pozzi at Home’ (1881). Via Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Critics harped about the picture’s “atrocious” coloring. The gossip surrounding the artist’s not-so-anonymous model didn ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is justifiably known for his renditions of beautiful belle époque socialites. “To have been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in ...

JMW Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (around 1845), on display in the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain Photo: Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s ...

Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune ... He was also a prolific landscape and figure artist, producing more than 1,000 dazzling ...