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

Painting a family portrait ... Based on research by her grandfather Joshua Dorsey Warfield and several other family members interested in genealogy, ... A 1911 oil painting called The Burning ...

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.

BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it ...

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.

He made multiple paintings of a local peasant woman, Gordina de Groot, also known as Sien. This portrait prefaces Van Gogh’s early masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885), which depicts the De ...

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.