In “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World,” Fisher provides a comprehensive and engaging biography of the artist, from his peripatetic youth traveling throughout Europe to his ...

There have been countless retrospectives of portraitist John Singer Sargent, but now the 19th century painter is being shown in a brand new light.

A Living Immortal The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days' talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the ...

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American artist celebrated for his masterful portraiture, capturing the opulence and character of his subjects with unrivaled virtuosity.

Sargent and Paris traces the artist’s personal journey predominantly through his portraits of others—from the people he encountered while traveling in the Netherlands, Spain, North Africa, and ...

John Singer Sargent made his first trip to Spain in 1879. He was 23 and had just completed his artistic training in Paris. His teacher, Carolus-Duran, had urged his charges to study “Velázquez ...

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 ...

FALL ARTS PREVIEW At the MFA, a new show reveals John Singer Sargent’s passion for fashion — in service of art ‘Fashioned by Sargent,’ opening Oct. 8, features more than a dozen dresses ...

Nearly 40 years ago, the Whitney Museum presented John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) as a kind of cultural Zelig, an artist whose identity was keyed to the zeitgeist. The museum focuses on post-World ...

Art History The One That Got Away: Why the Frick Doesn’t Have a Single John Singer Sargent Painting The art-collecting industrialist tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no ...

ARTS BRIEFING: HIGHLIGHTS; ART: THE WYNNS' NEW SARGENT Arts Briefing column; Las Vegas casino owner Stephen Wynn and wife, Elaine, pay Sotheby's $8.8 million for John Singer Sargent painting ...

Art Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob? Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters.