Depicting in great detail fiery rashes, scabs resembling igneous rocks, and inflamed skin patterns spread out like archipelagos, the pages of dermatological texts may make your skin crawl. Still, ...
William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...
Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, ...
The Larry J. West Collection features an array of early photography, (above: Untitled (pin, woman in hat) by unidentified artist, ca. 1865), presenting a stunning new visual record. L. J. West ...
The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...
In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...
The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...
The painting is a promised gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art. James Alexander Simpson, Portrait, possibly of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell (ca. 1839). Collection of Dorita Sewell, promised gift on extended ...
WARSAW, Poland >> A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The East Tennessee History Center is showcasing a unique exhibit focusing on artist Samuel Shaver. The idea behind the exhibit is to show the evolution of the Southeast within ...
Christie’s is kicking off the new year with news of an exciting discovery for collectors of American art and folk art. At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a ...
A charity that owns a historic manor house has launched an appeal to locate three missing family portraits dating from the 19th Century. The paintings, which are from Wrest Park in Silsoe, ...
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