The rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – ...

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?

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

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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.

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 ...

From the 1880's nearly until the start of World War I, by which point he had pretty much given up portraiture, John Singer Sargent was the most skillful society painter on either side of the ...

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

John Singer Sargent, whose career is celebrated in a retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from February 21 to May 31 (and then traveling to Boston), ...

John Singer Sargent's "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” (1882). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sargent made portraits of them all, and the one of the two children is among his most striking works.

John Singer Sargent was an American 19th Century artist who was born in 1856. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key ...