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

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...

Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent ... should claim to be “works of art.” As Paul Fisher’s biography, The Grand Affair, explains it, Sargent disliked controversy but stood ...

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...

This summer, Des Moines Metro Opera, one of America’s boldest smaller companies, staged those two works side by side ... Apollo,” about John Singer Sargent’s putative affair with Thomas ...

By Karen Rosenberg The painter John Singer Sargent has sometimes been ... The writer D.H. Lawrence once ridiculed Sargent’s works as “nothing but yards and yards of satin from the most ...

BOSTON — At the turn of the 20th century, John Singer Sargent ... considered one of Sargent’s finest. Sargent was the premiere portraitist of his time, and his works hang in museums and ...

His name was John Singer Sargent. He was a young artist ... A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United States.