John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere features the artist John Singer Sargent, creator of the infamous Madame X painting, but what's the true story?

John Singer Sargent’s Many Beauties, Male and Female, ... ‘N o more paughtraits,” John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) wrote to a friend in 1907. Sargent was wry and honest.

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, ...

They hold your eye, the women in John Singer Sargent’s paintings. In fact, they don’t just hold it, but seize it — whether through their poise or allure or elusiveness.

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A major exhibition featuring the works of the foremost American portrait painter of the late 19th-century, John Singer Sargent, is on display ...

Like characters from the writings of Edith Wharton, these women were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking — particularly when immortalized by John Singer Sargent.

John Singer Sargent’s portraits of legendary and aristocratic women are finally getting their due at a comprehensive new exhibit. View our gallery.

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...