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An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent ... beauty”—a term for women who advanced their social standing ...

John Singer Sargent, ‘The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit’ (1882). Via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A French critic of the time rued that the Americans “have painters, like Mr. Sargent, who take away ...

According to the book “Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X” by Deborah David, a 50-something Amélie’s had all the mirrors in her home removed after overhearing a woman ...

a woman who knows that her portrait is worth painting. This is what Sargent captured in his paintings: that beautiful particularness of each of us. John Singer Sargent, “Madame X (Virginie ...

She held her seat of Plymouth Sutton for 25 years. John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Nancy Astor, who became the first sitting female Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons ...

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 ...