In 1897, Edward Rathbone Bacon, a powerful railway magnate, challenged the globetrotting Swedish artist Anders Zorn to best the portrait of his sister-in-law Virginia Purdy that John Singer Sargent ...

The sumptuous colors, dazzling brushwork and sheer drama in the paintings of Anders Zorn (1860-1920) earned the Swedish artist fortune and fame during the Gilded Age. But Zorn’s work and name ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The prodigiously gifted Anders Zorn (1860-1920) squandered a portion of his talent, but what he left behind shimmers ...

The Swedish artist Anders Zorn steps out of the shadows of history for “Anders Zorn: A European Seduces America,” coming to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at the end of February. “Too young to be ...

He painted American presidents, barons of industry and society grande dames. He was as adept at etching as he was at sculpting in bronze. A fashion plate and a married womanizer, he traveled the world ...

His brother-in-law called him “a hybrid between a peasant and a gentleman.” In both his life and his art, the fin-de-siècle Swedish painter Anders Zorn straddled worlds unknown to each other. A ...

Like Zorro with a paintbrush, Anders Zorn inveigled his way into European high society of the 1880s with his fresh, fluent, flyaway style — swish, swish! — turning out paintings, watercolors, and ...

This biography profiles the life and times of early 20th century Swedish painter Anders Zorn who gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was the truth. Nowhere was Anders’s hometown. But just as every family is very old if you look closely enough ...