John Singer Sargent was born in the mid-1850s in Florence, Italy, to American parents. His elevated position in society ...

HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.

The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...

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

Before 'Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. Philip Kennicott. Sat, May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC. 7 min read. NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris. May 31, 2025.

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John Singer Sargent, Lady Anne Innes-Ker with and without hat (1910 and 1911). Photo courtesy English Heritage. Though Sargent painted very few portraits after 1907, he began making sensitive ...

Sargent’s subjects were part of a wave of wealthy American women who married into upper-class British families, infusing new money in return for status in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent, English Heritage has put on a show of 18 portraits of American heiresses that places their lives and notable achievements at ...

Left: John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–1884, oil on canvas. (Photo courtesy of the Met) Center: John Singer Sargent, Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, 1880.

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 ...