Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling ...

John Singer Sargent's Madame X (1883-84) and Liz Hurley in Versace (1994) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence/Getty There couldn’t be two more fertile sources of fashion ...

Wander the painting galleries of a major museum on either side of the Atlantic and chances are you’ll encounter John Singer Sargent. The reasons are as much geographic as artistic. Born in Europe to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 than a ...

John Singer Sargent, “Pailleron Children” (1880), oil on canvas 60 × 69 in (courtesy Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections, purchased with funds from the Edith M. Usry Bequest, in memory of her ...

Italian-born American expatriate John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) spent his life chasing after the great masters of European painting. He trained in Rome and Paris before moving to London, where he ...

The arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential hazards. Patrons often provide financial help in return for the chance to ...

Born in Florence in 1856 to American parents, John Singer Sargent as a young boy lived a life of cultured leisure, touring the museums and galleries of Europe with his mother and attending the soirées ...

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 ...