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

John Singer Sargent was the pre-eminent society portraitist ... features 18 portraits – eight in oil, ten in charcoal. It is the first exhibition ever devoted to this side of Sargent's career ...

The rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – but they were resilient, formidable characters.

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 ...

It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

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

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...

By Claire Moses “Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg Jean Strouse ...

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

Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a ...