English painter Thomas Lawrence may have hidden some clues to a salacious romance in one of his most celebrated portraits.

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The U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program has announced its fourth and final group of honorees from throughout American ...

Centuries after Jan van Eyck painted The Arnolfini Portrait many unanswered abound about this masterpiece of the Northern ...

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A few decades back, a woman whose family had come into ownership of an unusual folk art painting of Horace Fairbanks tried to ...

In the 1920s, the Mexican government, newly formed after the recent revolution, started to employ painters for public art ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic ...

As a young woman in Amherst, she did not wholly refuse herself to the conventional demands of social intercourse, though it is evident that she yielded with protest and escaped with a sigh of relief.

Photographs of the royal family including images of Princess Margaret taken by her future husband, historic portraits by Cecil Beaton and works ... evolution of royal portrait photography from the ...