ANDY WARHOL ONCE got a personal tour of John Singer Sargent portraits from Trevor Fairbrother. In the 1980s, the man who would become Seattle Art Museum’s curator for modern art and one of the country ...

"A Portrait Of The Artist" is a doubly meaningful phrase when the artist in question was himself a master of the portrait ... as Martha Teichner now shows us: Her name was Virginie Gautreau, but ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present a once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of 50 charcoal drawings by American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. One of the most celebrated and ...

The doctor's pose (Portrait of Dr Pozzi, 1881, pictured left) is almost one of 17 th-century formality, even theatricality but the costume – is he about to go out or preparing for bed? – adds an ...

Sargent made his portraits in charcoal—a medium that allowed completion in less than three hours rather than the weeks it took for his full-length oils Roger Catlin | Museums Correspondent John Singer ...

Easily mistaken for a conservative throwback, Sargent’s portraits in fact are daring, haunting and astonishing In 1906 the celebrated society portraitist John Singer Sargent painted his own august ...

A collection of portraits of artists, friends and patrons shows a less blinging and more intimate side to the artist, with just a whiff of scandal The corset is not the only thing constricting her.

This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has embraced its Bostonian roots to focus on one of the city’s most beloved painters: John Singer Sargent. Yet, the Museum has not used its newest exhibition ...

Stuart Macbeth unsuccessfully tries to dodge the crowds to soak up the intimate charm of one-time Cotswold artist, and celeb artist of the age, John Singer Sargent Sargent’s 1881 portrait of Dr Samuel ...