A one-of-a-kind painting has been discovered in a closet in a permanently closed Baltimore seafood restaurant. The 1844 oil ...

SAAM began acquiring these portraits in 2021, from a larger collection assembled over 45 years by Larry J. West, a historian and collector of 19th-century material who specializes in African ...

Shaver had a front-row seat with his brush in his hand. " [Shaver] was East Tennessee's premier portrait artist in the 19th century," said Dr. Warren Dockter, the president and CEO of the ETHC.

An unknown 19th-century portrait of UMD medical school founder has been discovered in a former Baltimore seafood restaurant’s ...

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 ...

This image shows an early 20th century Florence Harris reproduction of a 19th century George Catlin painting, “Portrait of a Kickapoo man, Ahtonwetuk” at the Smithsonian Institution in ...

At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is offering a rare double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist Ammi Phillips (1788–1865). Phillips was an itinerant portraitist ...

An Early Portrait Commissioned by an American Born Into Slavery Goes on View Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race ...

Art History Did This Famously Beautiful 19th-Century Countess’s Artfully Posed Self-Portraits Pave the Way for the Contemporary Selfie? An exhibition at James Hyman Gallery in London reveals the ...