McKenney engaged the services of Charles Bird King (1785-1862), a well known Washington portraitist, who had studied under the great Benjamin West and others, to paint this series of portraits. King ...

The most studied period of Pablo Picasso's career, it seems, still had a secret to keep: a mystery woman hidden beneath a well-known portrait, now revealed by conservators at the Courtauld ...

Now, researchers believe they may have identified the only known portrait of the so-called “Nine Days Queen” painted before her death. Following the death of Edward VI in 1553, unscrupulous ...

Researchers speculate that the subject of the Pitt-River portrait and that of both the museums belonged to one family. Open ...

Success gave Bilińska new energy to work. She became a well-known portrait artist in Paris. Between 1878 and 1892, she sold 102 artworks. The artist managed her career with quite modern thoughtfulness ...