Sotheby’s London is offering what is believed to be the only known self-portrait by Clara Peeters (ca. 1589–ca. 1657), the famed Flemish still life painter. A presumed self-portrait with a lavish ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W.F.K. Travers. Created from life in 1865, the 9-foot-tall oil ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has installed a rare, life-sized portrait of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. According to a release from the National ...

POCATELLO — The Pocatello Art Center, 444 N. Main St., will be abuzz with creativity and excitement during the First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. The PAC is thrilled to announce the ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth ...

"I believe that Jenny Saville is a genius," said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph; and of the 45 works in this "stunning" retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, there are "at least a ...

Perhaps I should have heeded the warning of John Singer Sargent. He was the greatest portrait painter of the late 1800s Gilded Age, and one of the most revered of all times, but Sargent was only in ...

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 ...