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 ...

Georgia-born Amy Sherald gained national attention when she pulled her solo National Portrait Gallery exhibit, citing censorship. Atlantans will get to see it in its entirety.

There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between ...

The life story of Frederick, the enslaved subject of a rare formal portrait jointly acquired by two museums, is finally ...

The Elmhurst History Museum will this week unveil a 160-year old portrait with remarkable historic significance for Elmhurst, in part because of its subject but also because of the reputation of the ...