An elusive John Singer Sargent portrait of Winnaretta Singer at the Musée d’Orsay, revives the story of the radical ...

Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his ...

From 23 September 2025 to 11 January 2026, the Musée d'Orsay will be devoting a major exhibition to American Impressionist painter John Singer Sargent. For a first on French territory, a collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

National Academy of Design, 1971: Registration Records. Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the ...

The arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential ...

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 ...