An 18th-century oil painting stolen by mobsters from a New ... The large piece, painted by the British artist John Opie in 1784, had been purchased in 1930 in London by Dr. Earl Leroy Wood for ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired George Stubbs’ “Mares and Foals Belonging to the Second Viscount Bolingbroke,” one of the 18th-century British artist’s most detailed and visceral ...

In a remarkable turn of events, the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced on Friday the recovery and subsequent return of an 18th-century British painting titled "The Schoolmistress" to its ...

An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression ...

An 18th-century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting for $7,500 during the Great Depression ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... from the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the boy ...

I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to ...

Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, said that the work of Reynolds, the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously ...

British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and ...