Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

For centuries portrait painting has emphasized the sitter’s splendor and status, but Yeo preferred an expressionistic touch as the uniform’s warm crimson tones bleed out, shrouding every inch of the ...

Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the ...

The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, ...

When respected cultural advocate Gloria D. Hall was honored with an arts and humanities award in a ceremony at Mechanics Hall in 2004, she expressed her gratitude and appreciation. Then, looking up ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

Credit: “Abraham Lincoln,” Willem Frederik Karel Travers, oil on canvas, 1865. On loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation, and courtesy of the citizens of the Borough of Madison, New Jersey. Photo by ...