The portrait of George Washington at the Reading Public Museum now has a frame worthy of its illustrious subject. The museum recently unveiled the striking enhancement to its 230-year-old painting by ...

Born in Maryland in 1741, Peale is famous for his paintings of Washington, who sat for seven portraits between 1772 and 1795. His 1772 painting, which depicts Washington as a colonel in Virginia ...

An Italian Renaissance painting that disappeared from view for 450 years was yesterday declared to be the previously unknown self-portrait of the 16th century master goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini.

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - Representing 200 years of Philadelphia’s legal history, an art collection going up for auction this month includes the portrait of a 19th century congressman who repeatedly turned ...

Along with the portrait — flanked, as it was in Adele’s bedroom, by marble nudes of young men — are dozens of other paintings, sketches and vintage photographs of the artist himself ...

In the American Wing, which had presented “a romanticized history of American art,” Kornhauser said, a presidential portrait was recast with the consciousness of the present: John Trumbull’s ...

This story has been corrected to explain the location of the painting and the contents of the portrait itself. A painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt that was believed to be lost for around 100 ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...