The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...

William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...

Gouache, gold, pearls and semi-precious stones or colored glass paste on two white panels ...

Mechanics Hall received a special delivery Monday when the first paining of its Portraits Project arrived. The painting was of 19th-century Black Worcester business owners, abolitionists and husband ...

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...

Portraits of two prominent men in 19th century Goshen will return to Goshen in a focused display at the Goshen Historical Society Museum beginning Friday, July 3, and continuing through ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884). Everyone wants to spy that black slinky dress, and ...