An enigmatic portrait by Renaissance celebrity Sofonisba Anguissola marks its first American voyage for a show at the Timken ...

The National Portrait Gallery, London, has recently acquired a series of photographs by infamous 1980s photography duo, the Douglas Brothers. The portraits feature important cultural icons of the 90s, ...

The BP Portrait Award 2014, which opens at the National Portrait Gallery this week, might seem to some like the celebration of a dying art. In our digital age, portraiture might seem to be less and ...

As he stood in the Art Gallery of Peterborough looking at the large portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Alex Bierk says he can “hear my dad painting on it, being excited about working on it.” The city ...

WORCESTER — A beautiful 1864 portrait of renowned English actress Ellen Terry is one of the most visitor-requested paintings in London’s National Portrait Gallery, but now you don’t have to travel so ...

VILLANOVA — The island of Ireland is known for its outsized literary tradition: Its novelists, poets, and playwrights have produced many of the world’s most significant works, across centuries, genres ...

Hans Holbein the Younger was known to have painted three portraits of the Dutch humanist philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus in 1523, when they were both living in the Swiss city of Basel.

Installation view, Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Sept. 24–Dec. 15, 2019. Copyright Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and ...

It was a dream to be asked by the Smithsonian to paint a portrait of disability icon Temple Grandin. Here's what I hope you ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — In Chicago’s Ravenswood ...