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 ...

CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of climate change introduced by the era's rapid industrialization.

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 ...

The Frey portrait shows a surprising intimacy ... overpainting erasing Bélizaire was carried out in the late 19th- or early-20th-century—a time where Jim Crow laws reigned in the South, and ...

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 ...