William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...

Late-19th-century cabinet card (all images courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery unless otherwise noted) It’s a photograph with sentiments you hope will last a lifetime: the wedding portrait, in which a ...

An oil painting by 19th-century Cantonese artist Lam Qua shows a woman with a young child seated on her lap. The pair appears healthy at first glance. Fancy blue earrings dangle from the woman’s ears.

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting ...

Intimate portraits painted on a tiny scale first appeared in Europe’s courts in the 16th century. Unlike the grand likenesses displayed in castle halls for all to see, these palm-sized portraits were ...

LONDON -- At a time when some artists seem to want to be part of our decadent, usually tasteless celebrity culture, it was a good idea to put together an exhibition of paintings and sculptures showing ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A peeling portrait of ...