A year ago this month, when it was still closed to the public because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) took a major step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century group ...

Britain’s greatest painter of animal anatomy receives a tiny survey in a single room, while his masterpiece remains on show elsewhere in the building. Why, when he’s as good as Constable – and better ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Colonial Williamsburg says it is adding an important Southern 18th-century portrait to its collection. The historic area says the painting by Swiss-born Jeremiah Theus was ...

In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium. LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits ...

The Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and the National Portrait Gallery in London have announced a co-operative agreement whereby a rare 18th century portrait of a black African Muslim went on display ...

Fall 2021 is shaping up to be Kehinde Wiley’s season in Los Angeles. The Huntington has commissioned the artist to create a response to the most popular work in its art museum collection, Thomas ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI – A pair of late-18th Century portraits depicting a former Fort Michilimackinac commander and his wife have made their way to Michigan. Mackinac State Historic Parks announced ...

When director Céline Sciamma envisioned the sea-wind swept Brittany that defines the setting and atmosphere of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” she imagined something quite different than what she got.

“Pictures in Private: British Portraiture in Domestic Spaces, 1680 to 1830,” an intimate exhibition of small-scale portraits displayed in homes at that time, demonstrates that decorating hasn’t ...

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, and Russia's famed Tretyakov Gallery have conducted a ...