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 ...

It opened all our eyes to the fact that Aunt Emily was not just an occasional amateur, but a really serious artist.” John Singer Sargent, In the Generalife (1912).

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 ...

Sargent and Paris at the Met delivers a cultural polyglot with a French soul. I’m relieved to confess something I’ve believed from my earliest days as an art historian. John Singer Sargent is ...

American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) arrived in Paris in 1874 as a talented and ambitious young man determined to make a name for himself. About a decade later, Sargent left Paris for ...