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

It turns out this obsession with picture-perfect portraits isn’t new and existed long before Photoshop and filters. Back then ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for half million dollars ...

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 ...

Auctions Unique 19th-Century Double-Sided Portrait by American Folk Art Icon Resurfaces. The work by revered painter Ammi Phillips will be offered at Christie's Americana sale.

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist ...

Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn. Gustave Courbet’s “The Source of the Lison” was lost in a forgotten box for over a century. ... A portrait of Thomas W. Evans, ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new.

Last March, three artists were commissioned to paint portraits of important 19th-century Black Americans that will hang among the other portraits that have long graced the iconic hall.