According to Dr Farid: "In the early part of his career, Southern politician John Calhoun was a strong supporter of slavery. It is ironic, therefore, that the nearly iconic portrait of Abraham ...

With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

Ewa Juszkiewicz’s painting, based on an early 19th-century portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier by Louis-Léopold Boilly, utilises the strategy of appropriating a historical image and ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring ... which includes early US census reports; extensive birth, marriage, death and ...

But those very proteins sit in the canvases of paintings from early 19th century Denmark. In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers from across Europe say that ...

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 ...

In the early 20th century ... These paintings were a series of 19th century portraits depicting various Kickapoo leaders from Central Illinois. Catlin was renowned for his work documenting ...

The paintings were done in oil by Ammi Phillips, a famed 19th-century portraitist ... so rare to have portraits of individuals from this early period, especially for New Paltz,” Ms. Bloodgood ...