He relished painting bohemian poets, playwrights and musicians. And, here, Sargent was as drawn to Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth as he was to her costume.

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?

What John Singer Sargent Saw At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression.

Sargent’s painting of the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in the shimmering gown (which boasts actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface), hangs nearby.

Tanya Austin is a local attorney who made her own replica of the beetle wing-embellished dress shown in John Singer Sargent's painting "Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth." ...

John Singer Sargent, Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d’Abernon (1904). Photo: Sean Pathasema, courtesy of Birmingham Museum of Art.

Much of the magic of a John Singer Sargent painting resides in the subject’s clothing. From aristocrats in extravagant ruffles to actors swathed in glittering beading, the 19th-century artist ...

John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–1884. Oil on canvas. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916.

Organized by Tate Britain and MFA Boston “Sargent and Fashion” gathers 60 of his portraits and the clothing that helped inspire them.

HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...

At the Museum of Fine Arts, the frothy ‘Fashioned by Sargent’ explores’ the artist’s painterly gifts and surface obsessions.