The painting is a promised gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art. James Alexander Simpson, Portrait, possibly of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell (ca. 1839). Collection of Dorita Sewell, promised gift on extended ...
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 ...
John E. Brooks, son of Henry Sands Brooks, the founder of Brooks Brothers (c. 1845) by Shepard Alonzo Mount (all images courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York) If you had a mind to teach a ...
DAG's latest exhibition revisits 19th century India through Emily Eden's lithographs, pairing them with her family archives ...
In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...
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 ...
Christie’s is kicking off the new year with news of an exciting discovery for collectors of American art and folk art. At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Imo Nse Imeh in his Holyoke studio. When respected cultural advocate Gloria D. Hall was honored with an arts and humanities ...
Added title transcribed from gilt- and black-printed t.p., which reads: Photograph album, Philadelphia, Wm. S. & A. Martien. The publishing house of Wm. S. & A. Martien was active between 1856 and ...
The Neal Auction Company showroom on Magazine Street sizzled with anticipation Friday afternoon as bidding began on a circa 1840 painting of an enslaved man named Frederick. The auctioneer, Michelle ...
Like many others, Maurene Cooper shifted her career focus during the pandemic, and she now creates one-of-a-kind Victoria era keepsakes. The Montgomery County artist launched Vanity Tintype in ...
A Unique Exhibition at DAG, New Delhi The exhibition Princes & People of India: Portraits by Emily Eden opened on July 10 at ...