At the height of his fame at the end of the 19th century, John Singer Sargent became increasingly weary of painting commissioned portraits. In the decade that followed, the Paris-trained American ...

One hundred years after American painter John Singer Sargent’s death, Paris's Orsay Museum opens a massive exhibit expected to be one of the blockbusters of the season.

Five exceptional portraits at Tate Britain's "Sargent and Fashion" reveal the painter's eye for dress. Installation view of "Sargent and Fashion" at Tate Britain showing Madame X (1883-84) and a study ...

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 ...

“Sargent and Spain,” hosted by the National Gallery of Art at Washington, D.C., through January 2, is a triumph in the genre. The show examines the influence of the artist’s seven visits to Spain on ...

Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Feb.11-May 14) from the National Gallery in Washington, is a ...

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 ...

When you walk into the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Gallery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, something remarkable happens. After strolling past any number of staid, well-executed portraits in the rooms of ...

GLOUCESTER — What would have happened if William Shakespeare had “a wonderfully gifted sister”? Virginia Woolf envisioned it in “A Room of One’s Own.” It didn’t turn out well. Three centuries after ...

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 ...

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas. By Walker Mimms In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life ...