An 18th-century oil painting stolen by mobsters from a New ... The large piece, painted by the British artist John Opie in 1784, had been purchased in 1930 in London by Dr. Earl Leroy Wood for ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired George Stubbs’ “Mares and Foals Belonging to the Second Viscount Bolingbroke,” one of the 18th-century British artist’s most detailed and visceral ...

In a remarkable turn of events, the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced on Friday the recovery and subsequent return of an 18th-century British painting titled "The Schoolmistress" to its ...

An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression ...

An 18th century British painting that was stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office ...

He added: “Whoever has had their hands on it, I’m thankful they took care of the painting.” The oil-on-canvas painting is about 40 inches by 50 inches and shows an elderly woman, possibly ...

(A common motif in this type of 18th ... century white audiences "something novel to see-a form of entertainment like seeing a parrot at a zoo," said Chiedza Mhondoro, an assistant curator of ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... from the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the boy ...

A book about 18th-century ... Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (2024) by Esther Chadwick is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and ...

Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, said that the work of Reynolds, the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously ...

British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and ...