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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“ One Life: Frederick Douglass ” at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery offers an image-based timeline of the orator and statesman’s life and work from his days of enslavement up until his postwar ...

National Portrait Gallery Silhouette Sleuthing How a curator unlocked the secrets in an arsenic-laced portrait album Carly Pippin, Getty March 30, 2023 ...

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.

A rare life-size portrait of Abraham Lincoln that hung in the Madison borough hall for 80 years is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.