John Singer Sargent’s parents, Mary Newbold Singer and Fitzwilliam Sargent, left Philadelphia in 1853 to recover from the tragic death of their first child. They wandered around Europe, living ...
“Detestable! Boring! Curious! Monstrous!” the crowds shouted. “Madame X” (pictured) scandalised visitors to the Paris Salon in 1884, with her heavy make-up and tight black gown whose strap was ...
Assembling more than 90 works, many of which are returning to France for the first time since their creation, the exhibition John Singer Sargent. Dazzling Paris at the Orsay Museum in Paris – the ...
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 ...
The Music Room at Kenwood House serves as the grand centerpiece gallery of a new exhibition on the Belle Époque’s most eminent society portraitist. In place of pictures from the permanent collection ...
(from left) MADAME X 1884 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916; Nude study Thomas E. McKeller 1920 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (cropped) John Singer Sargent ...
Erin Konrad's love for everything entertainment dates back to elementary school when she became obsessed with classic Hollywood musicals. When she's not catching up on all her favorite television ...
John Singer Sargent was born in the mid-1850s in Florence, Italy, to American parents. His elevated position in society allowed him to pursue the arts, not as merely a decorator, but as a painter ...
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 ...
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John Singer Sargent was the pre-eminent society portraitist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, said Andrew Pulver on Air Mail. Indeed, "sitting for – and paying for – a portrait by Sargent was ...
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