celebrated portrait painter John Singer Sargent unveiled his daring vision of the alabaster beauty, a portrait only thinly veiled in anonymity, now known simply as: Madame X. Now in the ...

“The Sulphur Match” (1882), oil on canvas John Singer Sargent, “Self-Portrait” (1886), oil on canvas Sargent and Paris continues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth ...

By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute portrait painter John Singer Sargent is often identified as an American, but he belonged to no one country. Born in Florence, Italy, to expat parents ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...

Some married for love, and some against their will - now the portraits of American heiresses ... mansion marks the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death and brings together 18 of his ...

An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the sinuous contours of whom have been in the museum’s permanent collection ...

John Singer Sargent ... been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished,” wrote one critic in a 1925 obituary. But before he became the hottest portrait painter in France ...

explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884. Sargent was just 18 ...

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends is on at the National Portrait Gallery, London from Thursday 12 February until Monday 25 May 2015 ...