About 1,800 19th-century silhouette portraits made by a traveling artist named William Bache are included in a book the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has digitized and made available ...

Ewa Juszkiewicz’s painting, based on an early 19th-century portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier by Louis-Léopold Boilly, utilises the strategy of appropriating a historical image and ...

With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

In the early 20th century ... These paintings were a series of 19th century portraits depicting various Kickapoo leaders from Central Illinois. Catlin was renowned for his work documenting ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring ... which includes early US census reports; extensive birth, marriage, death and ...

According to Dr Farid: "In the early part of his career, Southern politician John Calhoun was a strong supporter of slavery. It is ironic, therefore, that the nearly iconic portrait of Abraham ...

But those very proteins sit in the canvases of paintings from early 19th century Denmark. In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers from across Europe say that ...

A curated collection of oil paintings from the 19th and early 20th century is currently on display at the Surrendra Paul Art Gallery, offering art lovers a rare glimpse of mythological paintings ...