She became good friends with the American painters John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler and the writer Henry James.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Many include paintings by famous artists, like French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American artist John Singer Sargent.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

John Singer Sargent's painting known as "Madame X" was disputed when it was shown in eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The next day, a Friday, John Sargent, the C.

NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

When the family was painted by John Singer Sargent, he asked the artist to emphasise the irregularity of Edith's nose.

ECONOMIST: She was as highly regarded as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot

But that isn't evident in the glowing exhibition of watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) now on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

WSJ: Fluid, Evanescent Images | John Singer Sargent Watercolors | Brooklyn Museum | By Tom L. Freudenheim