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

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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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In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador to Britain, ... John Singer Sargent, Lady Anne Innes-Ker with and without hat (1910 and 1911).

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 ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X,” 1883-84, modeled by the precariously dressed Parisian socialite and American expatriate Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau.