In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home ... about wealth and status, it was self expression, creativity, art.
Many of these so-called 'Dollar Princesses', who swapped money for titles, were painted by John Singer ... portraits are glamorous and powerful, evoking the 'American' qualities of candour and ...
The death of the foremost American painter, John Singer Sargent, is the greatest artistic ... brush has left to posterity and to Harvard portraits of two of, its greatest, presidents--tributes ...
Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends is on at the National Portrait Gallery, London from Thursday 12 February until Monday 25 May 2015 ...