One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his ... Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art ...

But the damage had been done. Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is justifiably known for his renditions of beautiful belle époque socialites. “To have been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished ...

“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic wrote at the time.

Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, The Art Newspaper’s managing editor, Louis Jebb ... s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s most famous—and in its time ...

Robert Louis Stevenson was sickly, often coughing blood. It was thought he would die young and in fact he did, a century ago, at age 44. But not before hiking and canoeing and sailing over half ...

Black Dog, named after a pirate in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel “Treasure Island,” would be its mascot. The Black Dog Tavern opened on New Year’s Eve in 1971, and the stately profile of ...

The youngest son of Louis and Mildred Prevost, Pope Leo has two older brothers: John Joseph Prevost and Louis Martín Prevost. Both brothers have spoken to national media in the aftermath of Pope ...