Gerrit van Honthorst, Portrait of Princess Palatine Elizabeth, oil on canvas; Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840-43), oil on board (all images courtesy the Bodleian ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...

The collection of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) includes art made by the best painters of the High Renaissance. The ...

Artist and longtime Smith faculty member Katy Schneider is no stranger to the art of portraiture. Her painting of former Smith President Carol Christ now hangs in the Klingenstein Browsing Room in ...

From 16th-century nuns to modern masters, this collection’s focus on female figurative realists drives a $50,000 biennial boost for the next generation ...

For the first time in history, all of Van Eyck’s surviving portraits—nearly half of his entire known output—will be displayed together at London’s National Gallery. Jan van Eyck, Margaret, the ...

The seventh edition of the triennial Outwin Boochever contest showcases contemporary artists’ novel approaches to their subjects Alicia Ault - Museums Correspondent A still from Down the Barrel (of a ...

When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man. When a rare portrait by one of Britain’s first ...

At Mendes Wood DM in Paris, a show of carefully composed oil paintings draws so heavily on classical art that their urgency ...