Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. The Library of Congress The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln ...

Titled Jeune femme faisant du crochet (Julie Lemmen), 1890, the painting portrays the artist’s sister, Julie Fréderique ...

In the past, people relied on portrait painters to subtly retouch their likenesses. With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing ...

Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of climate change introduced ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed to be Mary Ann Tritt Cassell went on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art late last month. It is making headlines for ...

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the Met transcript The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

Trump has about 20 portraits in the Oval Office. They include Andrew Jackson, his initial, unusual 19th-century presidential fixation. Jackson, a Democrat considered the first populist president ...

The authors of the photographs were Brandel, Beyer, Jan Mieczkowski and Maksymilian Fajans, who contributed a total of 93 shots of buildings, 41 portraits and 34 scenes from daily life. Such an ...