A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

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Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.

As one of the few representations of a named Black figure in European art before the 1800s, the Suttermans portrait joins Melchior Barthel, Bust of a Black Man, in the same period collection.

That’s the same feeling we got when we first saw designer Kacee Witherbee’s own house in Freeport, Maine: an 1800s Cape that Kacee calls “a selective self-portrait: an expression of who we ...

A 200-year-old portrait of the first U.S. President that was stolen over a year ago from a Colorado storage unit has been recovered, law enforcement shared Monday.

The painting of 15-year-old Bélizaire with the children of the family that enslaved him was restored to its original composition after his figure was covered up around 1900.

The restored portraits now hang at the Long Home Community at Highland in Manheim Township, Lancaster County. Updated: 8:57 AM EDT Aug 20, 2012 Long family portraits from 1800s restored ...

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

The unrivaled 20th century master’s first known self-portrait painting was created in 1948 by the then-20-year-old art student at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).

A tentative agreement has been reached for an unnamed Canadian family to buy the Sanders portrait, the famous 410-year-old painting that increasing evidence indicates is the only existing likeness ...