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 ...

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Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a ... “The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s ...

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 ...

John Singer Sargent, portrait painter – and “stylist”? Sixty paintings reveal how Sargent used “sartorial choices” to “fashion” his high-society sitters’ images. Ambitious ...

Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy ...

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s best work. The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the ...

Anders Zorn was a Swedish painter known for his depictions of nude bathers ... Zorn captured various qualities of light and form with free brushstrokes similar to those of John Singer Sargent. Born on ...

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The death of the foremost American painter, John Singer Sargent, is the greatest artistic loss which the world has suffered in many years. To Harvard there comes also the sense of personal ...