During a routine house call to a private estate in Camden, Maine, auctioneer Kaja Veilleux made an unexpected discovery in the property’s attic: A 17th-century painting of a young woman wearing a cap ...

More than 60 years ago, art historians attributed a rare portrait to Caravaggio, the celebrated Baroque painter known for his vividly realistic artwork. But the piece has never been publicly displayed ...

British painter Issy Wood spawned a new portrait style with her "cinematic crop" that is cropping up everywhere.

He peels back the paint to reveal a hidden portrait! #Art #Painting #Amazing ...

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 ...

Kameron Neal Receives $25,000 and New Commission as First-Prize Winner of the National Triennial Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist ...

Bry Sharland does not only want to memorialize their lives; he also wants to capture the queer joy they found despite their ...

Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...

The portraits, which will hang permanently in the presidential residence, were created by artists Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung More than five years after President Barack Obama left office, the ...