Prints of old Mexican War-era heroes were reissued with new heads; beardless pictures of men like Lincoln, Lee, and Jackson were updated. One publisher in Ohio issued about 50 portraits of Union ...

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 ...

Last March, three artists were commissioned to paint portraits of important 19th-century Black Americans ... of condolence from such influential men as Frederick Douglass, Stephen Salisbury ...

“Dandyism is a mysterious institution,” he said of the cult of the fastidiously-dressed, 19th-century male ... tightly composed portraits in Ball’s signature airy stretches of color ...