Its press statement accompanying the reopening says 48% of the portraits in the 20th- and 21st-century galleries are now of women, up from 35%. And 11% of all portraits on display today are of ...

The museum will also display a portrait of pioneering 19th-century Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Portraits of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Hebrew Union College, and Rabbi Sally Priesand ...

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 ...

Phillips was an itinerant portraitist who worked for more than 50 years and produced as many as 2,000 portraits, according to the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C.

MADISON — A celebrated 19th-century painting of Abraham Lincoln that hung for 80 years on the wall of the borough's council chambers is on its way to Washington D.C. and a long-awaited national ...