In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...
Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, ...
William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...
WARSAW – A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century, ...
The Larry J. West Collection features an array of early photography, (above: Untitled (pin, woman in hat) by unidentified artist, ca. 1865), presenting a stunning new visual record. L. J. West ...
The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...
Mechanics Hall received a special delivery Monday when the first paining of its Portraits Project arrived. The painting was of 19th-century Black Worcester business owners, abolitionists and husband ...
This combination of undated photos provided by Dariusz Markowski, left, and Jaroslaw Golebiowski, right, show a portrait of Polish composer Frederic Chopin before and after restoration. A peeling ...
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