In 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” wrote to a friend about the portrait of himself that John Singer Sargent had recently painted. The author ...

I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure Island, had been published two years earlier ...

A portrait of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson, which the writer called "too eccentric to be exhibited", has sold for $8.8m (£5m). US painter John Singer Sargent's portrait shows the ...

Wynn will hang his new art purchase, John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife," at a new Las Vegas casino. Wynn announced Wednesday that he will hang the painting in ...

Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert ... But in 1885, John Singer Sargent, who had been a student of Carolus-Duran in Paris with Louis’s cousin ...

As a child, according to author Claire Harmon, Robert ... This is Stevenson as Harmon sees him, and her view seems as authentic, and certainly as vivid, as John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait ...

as Martha Teichner now shows us: Her name was Virginie Gautreau, but scandal turned her forever into "Madame X," and just about did in the career of 28-year-old John Singer Sargent when he ...

Arts Briefing column; Las Vegas casino owner Stephen Wynn and wife, Elaine, pay Sotheby's $8.8 million for John Singer Sargent painting, Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife ...

The Taft Museum's painting, "Robert Louis Stevenson" by John Singer Sargent, is being loaned to the exhibition "Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends." The show will be on view at the National ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his ... Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art ...