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 ...

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

Following an intense five-minute bidding war for a painting of WA’s first Governor, gasps and applause broke out when the ...

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.

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 most devastating insults land with precision. Such was the case for a 19th-century critic who skewered Francisco Goya’s Carlos IV of Spain and His Family (1800–1801), in a single line ...

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 ...

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.