Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life story—remained unknown for more than a century ...

Soon after, New Orleans fell to the Union Army. “Did he survive past ... what the museum paid for the Frey family portrait. But 19th century portraits of people of African descent, even with ...

Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. The Library of Congress The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln ...

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 ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed to be Mary Ann Tritt Cassell went on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art late last month. It is making headlines for ...

The 19th-century portraits of Angelo Giulio "Diego" Bernacchi and his wife Barbe were donated by their great-great-granddaughter Clare Bernacchi. Ms Bernacchi, from Auckland, recently visited ...

Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. It was one of the means by which Abraham Lincoln came to power, gaining the ...