A 19th-century family portrait that was altered to cover an enslaved teenager has been restored to its original version. The painting, initially etched on canvas, is now set to hang in the ...

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the Met transcript The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana ...

Neither the Met nor Simien would disclose what the museum paid for the Frey family portrait. But 19th century portraits of people of African descent, even with unidentified sitters, have drawn ...

June’s Arts Society lecture is set to take a look at 19th-century American art and westward expansion. ‘American West in Art’ ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed ... U.S., and tells a fascinating story of a free Black family before emancipation. It’s also a rare work from ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring ... death and immigration records; and family trees dating back centuries.

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 ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th ... portraits which reimagined the possibilities of the medium. Born Virginia Oldoïni to an aristocratic family ...