{"id":237864,"date":"2026-01-17T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/237864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:57:07","slug":"worcester-museum-to-host-john-singer-sargent-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/237864\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester museum to host John Singer Sargent exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The works of one of the &#8220;most celebrated portrait painters of his time&#8221; have gone on display at a museum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Singer Sargent: An American in Worcestershire, opens at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday and runs until the 14 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition celebrates the artist&#8217;s visits to the region and includes works not seen before in the city, Museums Worcestershire said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sargent, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artists\/john-singer-sargent-475\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in 1925, external<\/a>, became most renowned as a portraitist, with a &#8220;remarkable ability to capture the individual likeness and character of his sitters,&#8221; a spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The works of one of the &#8220;most celebrated portrait painters of his time&#8221; have gone on display at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-237864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}