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

His father, a distinguished surgeon of Puritan spine, wanted him to join the Navy. But his mother was musical and did water colors. Besides, he was brought up traveling abroad, where talented young ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...

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 ...

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) painted in a realistic style and refused to bow to the dictates of modern art, saying he didn’t believe that “these novelties” should ...