It’s easy to describe Jean Strouse’s latest publication. It’s a beautifully written book about the connections between the painter John Singer Sargent and a family he painted often, the Wertheimers.

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 ...

Biographer Strouse (Alice James) intricately sketches the longtime relationship between painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) and a wealthy Jewish family in early 20th-century Britain. After being ...

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.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 26–August 3) explores John Singer ...

One of the standout works on view, Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children (1896), was an immediate sensation when it debuted at the Royal Academy in May 1897. The main sitter, Adèle, is anchored into the ...

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 ...

The newly discovered masterpiece has drawn comparisons to Madame X, and is having its public debut in a new blockbuster Sargent exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. John Singer Sargent's Madame O'Connor ...

There are only a few days left to experience the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which means you've got until Sunday to see why fans of the current season of The Gilded ...