A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

In r/Antiques, one person shared a unique find that could be worth more than what they paid. They uploaded a photo of a ...

As we scroll through our social media feeds, we come across hundreds of photos edited with photo editors. However, people ...

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 ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a rare 19th-century portrait featuring an enslaved person, helping restore to view a young mixed-race boy who was painted out of history—figu ...

In the past, people relied on portrait painters to subtly ... to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal ...

Christie’s is kicking off the new year with news of an exciting discovery for collectors of American art and folk art ... a rare double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist Ammi Phillips ...

The painting, attributed to Jacques Amans ... disclose what the museum paid for the Frey family portrait. But 19th century portraits of people of African descent, even with unidentified sitters ...

He made multiple paintings of a local peasant woman, Gordina de Groot, also known as Sien. This portrait prefaces Van Gogh’s early masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885), which depicts the De ...

The latter painting was ultimately acquired by Thomas Evans, one of the most prominent dentists of the 19th century. The Philadelphia-born ... fabulous pieces of silver.” A portrait of Thomas W. Evans ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted ... were made in the late 19th or early 20th century - were made.