John Singer Sargent was the pre-eminent society portraitist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, said Andrew Pulver on Air Mail. Indeed, "sitting for – and paying for – a portrait by Sargent was ...

Amy Phipps Guest had a pioneer spirit—she aspired to be an aviatrix. Those plans were nixed, but that did not prevent her from bankrolling flights by Amelia Earhart. She also was a big supporter of ...

At the Museum of Fine Arts, the frothy ‘Fashioned by Sargent’ explores’ the artist’s painterly gifts and surface obsessions. “Fashioned by Sargent,” the MFA’s frothy blockbuster of unabashed ...

"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 4, 2019 to January 12, 2020, and at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, February 28 to ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...

John Singer Sargent, “Daisy Fellowes,” c. 1920, charcoal on paper. Private collection, Columbus, Georgia. Photo by Jim Cawthorne. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present a ...

Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone, come August and September. By Rachel Sherman The rich expatriates ...

It’s easy to describe Jean Strouse’s latest publication. It’s a beautifully written book about the connections between the painter John Singer Sargent and a family he painted often, the Wertheimers.

In 1888, famed painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) hosted his first solo exhibition at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, where he displayed some of what would later be deemed his most iconic works.

John Singer Sargent’s “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,” painted in Paris in 1882 and a gem of the Museum of Fine Arts’s collection, at first confused viewers. It is neither a traditional portrait ...

Is it possible for an artist entirely to forget his own creation? One would be inclined to think not, yet the following is an absolutely true story of one of the world’s great painters. A portrait by ...

The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days’ talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the immediate family of a ...